HITRUST Alliance | Venture | Information Risk Management

Offering a Streamlined Approach for Startup Organizations to Adopt Best Practices Around Risk Management, Privacy and Security.

The HITRUST Venture Program, governed by a council of members from leading venture capital firms, was established to address the unique challenges of startup organizations by integrating security, privacy, and compliance into an organization’s culture and strategy from their genesis. To get started register your Venture Capital Firm by filling out the Participation Document and providing the completed form to VentureProgram@HITRUSTalliance.net.

One element of the program is providing startups access to a bundle of tools and services to facilitate an efficient and cost-effective process of ensuring they have the appropriate and effective information risk management and compliance controls in place and can demonstrate and provide assurances of such to their prospects, customers and investors.

The purpose of the Venture Program is simple: accelerate innovation for startups.

Why HITRUST?

The HITRUST Venture Program offers a streamlined approach for high-potential startup organizations to more easily leverage the HITRUST Approach – the most widely adopted and recognized approach around information risk management, privacy, and security – while facilitating their HITRUST Certification.

The HITRUST Certification helps startup companies reduce future potential risk, increase compliance, be more attractive to potential customers, and protect their brand reputation. This enables a competitive advantage through differentiation and the opportunity to grow initial and long-term value.

“By leveraging HITRUST’s expansive toolset and services, our portfolio companies will have access to a comprehensive and efficient approach.”
Yumin Choi, Bain Capital Ventures

Program Components

HITRUST Academy	Training courses designed to educate individuals about information protection and the utilization of HITRUST for their organization
HITRUST Assurance Program	Provides a simplified and consistent approach to assessments and reporting against the HITRUST CSF
HITRUST CSF	The framework for managing information security and privacy risks and compliance
HITRUST MyCSF Platform	Provides global organizations of all sizes with a purposefully designed and engineered SaaS solution
HITRUST Assessment XChange	Streamlines the process for third-party risk management by facilitating the collection and sharing of assessment data
HITRUST Annual Conference	The most comprehensive and definitive information risk management conference highlighting how to safeguard sensitive information and prevent data breaches