RedHatOfficial.rhel8-hipaa

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Ansible Role for HIPAA

Profile Description:
The HIPAA Security Rule sets national standards in the U.S. to protect people's electronic health information created, received, used, or kept by a covered entity. The Security Rule requires necessary administrative, physical, and technical measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic protected health information. This profile configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to comply with the HIPAA Security Rule for safeguarding electronic protected health information. Using this profile does not guarantee compliance with the HIPAA Security Rules.

The tasks in this role are created using OpenSCAP. For more information about generating Ansible playbooks, visit OpenSCAP project.

If you want to fix or enhance an Ansible task that is not working or is missing, please visit the ComplianceAsCode project.

Requirements

• Ansible version 2.9 or higher

Role Variables

To customize this role, check the list of variables.

Dependencies

N/A

Example Role Usage

Run ansible-galaxy install RedHatOfficial.rhel8_hipaa to download and install the role. You can then use this playbook snippet to run the Ansible role:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - { role: RedHatOfficial.rhel8_hipaa }

Next, check the playbook with this command (on your local machine):

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local --check playbook.yml

To deploy it (note: this may change your local machine's configuration!):

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local playbook.yml

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

This Ansible remediation role was created from security policies by the ComplianceAsCode project. For a list of authors and contributors, visit this link.