HITRUST touts 'shared responsibility' program for securing cloud services

The Health Information Trust Alliance, or HITRUST, says its recently released “shared responsibility” program for clarifying security roles and obligations can be helpful when partnering with service providers in areas like moving applications to the cloud.

“The program also automates and streamlines the assurance process to measure and certify the effectiveness of security controls applied by organizations and their third-party service providers that handle the various components for provisioning applications and connecting devices via the cloud,” according to a...