Health care organizations must strictly comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

Health care organizations must strictly comply with the Health Insurance Portability andAccountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security rules that require organizations to have propersecurity controls for handling personal information referred to as “protected health information,”or PHI. This includes security controls for the IT infrastructure handling PHI. Which of the listedrisks, threats, or vulnerabilities can violate HIPAA privacy and security requirements? List oneand justify your answer in one or two sentences.2. How many threats and vulnerabilities did you find that impacted risk in each of the sevendomains of a typical IT infrastructure?3. Which domain(s) had the greatest number of risks, threats, and vulnerabilities?4. What is the risk impact or risk factor (critical, major, and minor) that you would qualitativelyassign to the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities you identified for the LAN-to-WAN Domain forthe health care and HIPAA compliance scenario?5. Of the three System/Application Domain risks, threats, and vulnerabilities identified, which onerequires a disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan to maintain continued operationsduring a catastrophic outage?6. Which domain represents the greatest risk and uncertainty to an organization?7. Which domain requires stringent access controls and encryption for connectivity to corporateresources from home?8. Which domain requires annual security awareness training and employee background checks forsensitive positions to help mitigate risks from employee sabotage?9. Which domains need software vulnerability assessments to mitigate risk from softwarevulnerabilities?10. Which domain requires acceptable use policies (AUPs) to minimize unnecessary user-initiatedInternet traffic and can be monitored and controlled by Web content filters?11. In which domain do you implement Web content filters?12. If you implement a Wireless LAN (WLAN) to support connectivity for laptops in theWorkstation Domain, which domain does WLAN fall within?13. Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley-Act (GLBA), banks must protect customer privacy. A givenbank has just implemented its online banking solution that allows customers to access theiraccounts and perform transactions via their computers or personal digital assistant (PDA) devices.Online banking servers and their public Internet hosting would fall within which domains ofsecurity responsibility?14. True or false: Customers who conduct online banking on their laptops or personal computersmust use Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), the secure and encrypted version ofHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) browser communications. HTTPS encrypts Web page datainputs and data through the public Internet and decrypts that Web page and data on the user’s PCor device.15. Explain how a layered security strategy throughout the seven domains of a typical ITinfrastructure can help mitigate risk exposure for loss of privacy data or confidential data fromthe System/Application Domain.16.What is COBIT P09’s purpose?17. Name three of COBIT’s six control objectives.18.For each of the threats and vulnerabilities from the Identifying Threats and Vulnerabilities in anIT Infrastructure lab in this lab manual (list at least three and no more than five) that you haveremediated, what must you assess as part of your overall COBIT P09 risk management approachfor your IT infrastructure?19. True or false: COBIT P09 risk management control objectives focus on assessment andmanagement of IT risk.20. What is the name of the organization that defined the COBIT P09 Risk Management Framework?21. Describe three of the COBIT P09 control objectives.22. Describe three of the COBIT P09.1 IT Risk Management Framework control objectives.