164.316(a) Policies and Procedures (Standard)
164.316(a) in HIPAA Security Rule (the HIPAA Security Rule as it currently stands). All HIPAA Security Rule controls held. Open HIPAA Security Rule on the standards site.
The control as we hold it
Policies and Procedures (Standard). Implement reasonable and appropriate policies and procedures to comply with the Security Rule standards. NIST recommends a managed policy hierarchy with ownership, version control, and review cadence.
Reviewed and closest counterparts in the other frameworks
Reviewed rows come from a released pair; a closest match is the nearest held text and is not a reviewed row.
SOC 2
- SOC2-CC2.1 CC2.1 Relevant, quality information to support internal control (COSO principle 13) (closest match)
- SOC2-CC5.3 CC5.3 Deploying controls through policies and procedures (COSO principle 12) (closest match)
- SOC2-PI1.1 PI1.1 Quality information about processing objectives, data definitions and specifications (closest match)
NIST SP 800-53 Rev 5
- NIST800-PL-1 PL-1 Policy and Procedures (closest match)
- NIST800-PM-1 PM-1 Information Security Program Plan (closest match)
- NIST800-PM-17 PM-17 Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information on External Systems (closest match)
- NIST800-PM-28 PM-28 Risk Framing (closest match)
- NIST800-SA-17 SA-17 Developer Security and Privacy Architecture and Design (closest match)
What an auditor commonly asks for
General guidance for this control area (domain: Policies and Procedures), in our words, not a statement of the standard and not binding on an assessor.
- the current security policies and procedures
- the review and update record with dates
- the documentation-retention record