---
id: 8416
title: "What is HITRUST? – Part 1"
source_domain: netspi.com
source_url: "https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/what-is-hitrust-part-1/"
published_at: "2009-12-04T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["certification", "compliance", "healthcare", "hipaa", "hitrust", "csf"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8416"
lang: en
---

# What is HITRUST? – Part 1

## Summary

HITRUST, a for-profit alliance, built the Common Security Framework to reconcile healthcare's tangle of regulatory requirements and now offers certification against an agreed baseline of controls.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** netspi.com
- **Published:** 2009-12-04T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.netspi.com/blog/technical-blog/vulnerability-management/what-is-hitrust-part-1/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8416