Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Ansible Role for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Profile Description:
The HIPAA Security Rule establishes U.S. national standards to protect individuals’
electronic personal health information that is created, received, used, or
maintained by a covered entity. The Security Rule requires appropriate
administrative, physical and technical safeguards to ensure the
confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic protected health
information.
This profile configures Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 to the HIPAA Security
Rule identified for securing of electronic protected health information.
Use of this profile in no way guarantees or makes claims against legal compliance against the HIPAA Security Rule(s).

The tasks that are used in this role are generated using OpenSCAP. See the OpenSCAP project for more details on Ansible playbook generation at https://github.com/OpenSCAP/openscap

To submit a fix or enhancement for an Ansible task that is failing or missing in this role, see the ComplianceAsCode project at https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content

Requirements

• Ansible version 2.9 or higher

Role Variables

To customize the role to your liking, check out 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 snippet to run the Ansible role:

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

Next, check the playbook using (on the localhost) the following example:

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

To deploy it, use (this may change configuration of your local machine!):

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

License

BSD-3-Clause

Author Information

This Ansible remediation role has been generated from the body of security policies developed by the ComplianceAsCode project. Please see https://github.com/complianceascode/content/blob/master/Contributors.md for an updated list of authors and contributors.