Best Practice for Creating a HIPAA-Compliant cPanel Host
This whitepaper provides a comprehensive guide to securing a cPanel host for HIPAA compliance. It offers practical advice and best practices for configuring cPanel, Apache, MySQL, and PHP to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information (PHI).
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Key Topics Covered:
- Securing cPanel: Implementing strong passwords, hardening the tmp partition, restricting system compilers, disabling unused services and daemons, restricting filesystem permissions, controlling access by IP address, keeping cPanel updated, and enabling cPanel logging.
- Securing Apache: Keeping Apache up-to-date, configuring Apache to increase DDOS protection, setting strict permissions on server root directories, enforcing TLS certificate encryption, implementing dynamic content security, and protecting system settings and service files with .htaccess restrictions.
- Securing the Database: Implementing MySQL Enterprise Data Masking and De-identification routines, encrypting data at rest, enabling SELinux for access control, implementing MySQL plugins for authentication and access restriction, and enabling the MySQL Enterprise Audit plugin for monitoring and logging.
- Securing PHP: Keeping PHP up-to-date, hashing and verifying passwords, and protecting against cross-site scripting (XSS) and request forgery (XSFR).
Download this helpful guide to:
- Understand the importance of HIPAA compliance for cPanel hosts.
- Learn practical steps to secure cPanel, Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
- Implement best practices for data protection and access control.
- Ensure your web applications comply with HIPAA regulations.