HIPAA Compliance: Cost-Effective Solutions for the Technical Security Regulations

While HIPAA is comprised of many different regulations, the objective of this document is to suggest cost-effective solutions to the proposed Technical Security Mechanisms regulation. The scope includes suggestions for a combined Windows NT and UNIX environment. Please note that there are numerous variations of each operating system, and certain techniques outlined in this paper might not be available or may function differently depending on the configuration of a company's systems.