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This month, I am taking a look at the differences between ‘Regulatory Compliance’ and ‘Operational Readiness’ through a series of videos.

Regulatory Compliance The efforts to check the boxes before audits – often mandated by an industry (e.g. HIPAA), corporate (SOX) or legal (DOD 5.015.2-STD).	Operational Readiness The IT efforts to ensure that key IT systems and data are resilient through high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) or business continuity (BC) technologies and services.

First, I did an overview of the dichotomy between regulatory compliance and operational readiness (BC/DR/HA).

Last week, I looked at regulations that affect US financial institutions (SEC) and publicly-held companies (SOX).

This week, we’ll look at healthcare organizations and their regulatory mandates in HIPAA.

Week 3: Healthcare Organizations

Next week, we’ll look closer at what IT professionals delivering data protection in government organizations, agencies and contractors that are regulated by CO-OP.

Thanks for watching.

[Originally Posted on ESG’s Technical Optimist.com]