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Security Rule Definitions

Access - The ability or the means necessary to read, write, modify, or communicate data/information or otherwise use any system resource.

Administrative Safeguards - Administrative actions, and policies and procedures, to manage the selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of security measures to protect electronic protected health information and to manage the conduct of the covered entity's or business associate's workforce in relation to the protection of that information.

Authentication - The corroboration that a person is the one claimed.

Availability - The property that data or information is accessible and useable upon demand by an authorized person.

Confidentiality - The property that data or information is not made available or disclosed to unauthorized persons or processes.

Encryption - The use of an algorithmic process to transform data into a form in which there is a low probability of assigning meaning without use of a confidential process or key.

Facility - The physical premises and the interior and exterior of a building(s).

Information System - An interconnected set of information resources under the same direct management control that shares common functionality. A system normally includes hardware, software, information, data, applications, communications, and people.

Integrity - The property that data or information have not been altered or destroyed in an unauthorized manner.

Malicious Software - Software, for example, a virus, designed to damage or disrupt a system.

Password - Confidential authentication information composed of a string of characters.

Physical Safeguards - Physical measures, policies, and procedures to protect a covered entity's or business associate's electronic information systems and related buildings and equipment, from natural and environmental hazards, and unauthorized intrusion.

Security or Security Measures - All of the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards in an information system.

Security Incident - The attempted or successful unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction of information or interference with system operations in an information system.

Technical Safeguards - The technology and the policy and procedures for its use that protect electronic protected health information and control access to it.

User - A person or entity with authorized access.

Workstation - An electronic computing device, for example, a laptop or desktop computer, or any other device that performs similar functions, and electronic media stored in its immediate environment.

Reference

45 CFR § 164.304

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