Comprehensive Security Review: Ubuntu Server HIPAA Compliance

This document presents a security review of Ubuntu Server, conducted in March 2019, to assess its compliance with HIPAA requirements. The review confirms that Ubuntu Server has implemented robust security controls to protect customer privacy and ensure the success of HIPAA compliance. Regular security patch updates from globally recognized experts enhance the server's security posture. The report details the assessment of HIPAA Technical Safeguards criteria, including Access Controls, Unique User Identification, Encryption and Decryption, Audit Controls, Integrity, and Transmission Security, highlighting areas of compliance and identifying a failure in Unique User Identification. The overall conclusion suggests that Ubuntu Server is a suitable choice for implementing a secure server environment, provided the identified shortcomings are addressed.

April 1, 2019
To Whom It May Concern:
This documentation has been made to give an overview of recent security review done on the
Ubuntu Server for the organization. An analysis of the level of development and maintenance of this
operating system was done in the month of March 2019. Following the information retrieved from the
security review, it is proven that Ubuntu server has carefully implemented a good set of security
controls to satisfy HIPAA requirements for success and customer privacy.
Ubuntu server receives regular system security patch updates from a team of worldly
recognized system security experts to keep all of its users safer all the time. However, these security
updates may interfere with the validity of this documentation. For this reason, the all the conclusions
that have been stated here represent the facts obtained as at the latest update of Ubuntu Server. We
really appreciate the opportunity we were given by the company to do an analysis of the security
posture of Ubuntu Server. It’s pretty clear from us that Ubuntu server would be the best Server to
implement.
Sincerely,
Name
Chief Technical Officer,
Company.

April 1, 2019
HIPAA Technical Safeguards Criteria
Access Controls User Access control Is perfectly done Pass
Unique User Identification.
Assignment of a unique name
Each user is assigned a unique username
(email address) and a password.
Pass
Encryption and Decryption. Well satisfied. Pass
Audit Controls Hardware, software, and/or procedural
mechanisms that record and examine
activity in information
systems that contain or use EPHI
Pass
Unique User Identification. Unique user id Fail
Emergency Access Procedure.
Established
Requirement satisfied. An administration
“dashboard” provides administrators a
way for obtaining necessary EPHI in the
event of an emergency
Pass
Automatic Logoff Procedures
that terminate an electronic
session after a predetermined
time of inactivity
Encryption and Decryption Requirement satisfied. Ubuntu Server
allows encryption and decryption of
electronic Data.
Pass
Audit Controls Pass
Integrity Pass
Transmission Security Guards against unauthorized access Pass