Cisco™ compliance solutions simplify the compliance process. With their comprehensive, validated frameworks, Cisco Compliance Solutions™ help customers plan, build, and manage compliance activities more effectively and efficiently. The solutions offer compliance resources for Payment Card Industry (PCI) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Cisco™ compliance solution for PCI DSS. Complying with the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) is important for all organizations that process, store, or transmit credit card information. PCI compliance helps protect credit card data, personal information, and customer identities. As attacks become more sophisticated and malicious, the risk of data breaches and devastating consequences grows. The Cisco™ solution helps simplify PCI compliance through a network segmentation approach. Cisco™ is a member of the PCI Board of Advisors, DSS Special Interest Groups, and Technical Working Groups. Cisco™ continues to increase their abilities to offer insights on simplifying, achieving, and maintaining PCI compliance.

Cisco™ compliance solution for HIPAA Security Rule. Healthcare organizations must keep up with constant changes, including compliance with the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule of January 2013 which strengthened the criteria for Protected Health Information (PHI). Cisco™ compliance solution for HIPAA Security Rule is a set of Cisco—recommended guidelines for building a network to meet HIPAA technical requirements. Assessed by external auditors, the solution recommends a validated architecture to help you satisfy HIPAA technical safeguards effectively. Cisco™ also provides compliance management services. You get compliance status updates for your network after you implement changes. Cisco™ compliance solution for HIPAA Security Rule is a set of Cisco™ recommended guidelines for building a network to meet HIPAA Security Rule compliance requirements. It uses Cisco™ technology, products, and services to help address the HIPAA Security Rule, and includes routing, switching, security, wireless, and data center products that have been assessed by external auditors for applicability to HIPAA compliance

PCI DSS Compliance Security

Address ongoing security and compliance requirements for data breaches continue to threaten organizations’ brands, reputations, and profits. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is designed to protect credit card information. Cisco™ simplifies compliance with an approach designed to help you maintain a secure network. Cisco’s™ approach—network segmentation—Cisco™ provides a holistic, three—step approach for protecting credit card data, personal information, and customer identities. Define where sensitive payment information flows. Cisco™ understands architecture and networks. Cisco’s™ segmentation approach reduces the footprint of your sensitive data to a defined network scope. Segmenting your existing architecture helps you reduce audit costs and simplifies maintenance. Protect the segmented area. With a clearly defined scope in which credit card data enters, resides, and exits, you can easily identify the area’s perimeter. Any boundary that touches public or untrusted networks must have firewall protection and intrusion detection capabilities. Monitor the segmented environment.

To maintain compliance, you must know the status of this sensitive area and know who has access to it. Cisco™ solutions for PCI compliance let you monitor the secured environment for threats, misconfiguration, and internal espionage. Segmentation allows you to simplify the complexity of PCI and reduce the cost of an audit. Improving Segmentation For organizations challenged with redesigning their IP addressing plan to support segmentation, Cisco™ offers an innovative approach that has been assessed by Verizon™ (QSA). Cisco™ TrustSec for PCI allows organizations to keep their existing topologies while effectively segmenting their environment using Security Group Tags. Cisco TrustSec™ streamlines firewall rules, automates policy enforcement, and simplifies security auditing. Cisco™ and our partners have the technology and experience to help solve your compliance challenges. Cisco™ also has been recognized by Gartner™ analysts as the most strategic vendor to meet PCI DSS needs. Cisco™  has participated with the PCI Council and been elected to the PCI Council Board of Advisors three times by global participants.

HIPPA Compliance Security

Cisco Services also offers HIPAA security assessment services to assess technical readiness for a HIPAA audit and identify PHI security vulnerabilities. Cisco™ compliance management services provide compliance status updates for your network when changes occur. Cisco™ compliance solution for HIPAA security rule will help you to avoid potential security pitfalls during a HIPAA audit. Addressing compliance from one infrastructure although achieving compliance requires more than just technology, the network is critical in supporting healthcare organizations’ compliance strategies. Cisco™ offers a unified compliance solution framework with guidelines that enable you to address multiple regulatory compliance requirements from one network infrastructure. The Cisco™ compliance solution for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is one component of this frame—work, addressing HIPAA Security Rule technical requirements and providing security best practices in a validated architecture. Learning from security rule findings HIPAA recently strengthened controls for Protected Health Information (PHI) with the release of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule.

Features And Benefits

In addition, HIPAA audits conducted in 2012 found that audited organizations had the most difficulty complying with the HIPAA Security Rule. Addressing compliance from one infrastructure is challenging, although achieving compliance requires more than just technology, the network is critical in supporting healthcare organizations’ compliance strategies. Cisco™ offers a unified compliance solution framework with guidelines that enable you to address multiple regulatory compliance requirements from one network infrastructure. The Cisco Validated Design Program™ offers systems and solutions that are designed, tested, and documented to facilitate and improve customer deployments. These designs incorporate a wide range of technologies and products into a portfolio of solutions developed to address the business needs of customers. Cisco™ compliance solution for PCI DSS 2.0 Get strategic guidance as well as extensive tactical implementation. Documentation includes a set of branch, data center, and Internet edge architectures and designs that simplify the process of achieving and maintaining PCI compliance. The designs incorporate partner technologies and have been assessed by Verizon Business, a qualified security assessor.