Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Ansible Role for HIPAA

Profile Description:
The HIPAA Security Rule sets U.S. national standards to protect people's electronic health information that is created, received, used, or kept by a covered organization. This rule requires appropriate administrative, physical, and technical measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and security of this electronic protected health information. This profile sets up Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to comply with HIPAA's Security Rule aimed at protecting electronic health information. Using this profile does not guarantee legal compliance with HIPAA Security Rule(s).

The tasks for this role are created using OpenSCAP. For more details on how to generate Ansible playbooks, visit OpenSCAP project.

To report a problem or suggest improvements for an Ansible task that is not working or is missing, check out the ComplianceAsCode project.

Requirements

• Ansible version 2.9 or higher

Role Variables

To personalize the role according to your needs, see the list of variables.

Dependencies

N/A

Example Role Usage

Run ansible-galaxy install RedHatOfficial.rhel9_hipaa to download and install the role. Then, you can use the following playbook example to run the Ansible role:

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - { role: RedHatOfficial.rhel9_hipaa }

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

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

To execute it, use (this could change your local machine's configuration!):

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

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

This Ansible remediation role is created from security policies developed by the ComplianceAsCode project. For a current list of authors and contributors, please see here.