CloudOps

Company : OneCare

OneCare, a healthcare provider, required a secure and compliant AWS multi-account environment to meet HIPAA requirements, with dedicated sandbox, development, and production environments. By implementing strong governance, preventive/detective controls, and continuous monitoring, OneCare achieved HIPAA compliance and improved operational efficiency.

Problem Statement / Definition

Healthcare workloads required HIPAA compliance and data security.
Lack of environment separation risked PHI (Protected Health Information) exposure.
No centralized security monitoring across accounts.
Audit readiness required automation and consistent control enforcement.

Proposed Solution & Architecture

Multi-Account Strategy: Used AWS Control Tower and Organizations to set up Production, Development, and Sandbox OUs.
Security & Compliance: Enabled GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config Conformance Packs aligned to HIPAA controls.
Preventive Controls: SCPs preventing unencrypted data storage and CloudTrail deletion.
Detective Controls: Config rules to detect public buckets, unrestricted security groups.
Centralized Logging: All CloudTrail and Config logs sent to Log Archive account.
Automation: EventBridge + SSM for remediation, IaC templates for provisioning.

Outcomes of Project & Success Metrics

Achieved HIPAA compliance certification readiness within 6 months.
Reduced environment provisioning time from weeks to <1 day.
Zero PHI data exposure incidents after security baseline was enforced.
Improved audit readiness with centralized evidence collection (Security Hub reports).

TCO Analysis

Manual compliance preparation → reduced by 50% OpEx savings through automation.
Reduced audit preparation time by 80% using Security Hub and Config dashboards.
Reduced downtime risk for healthcare apps → improved patient experience.

Lessons Learned

Early compliance team involvement ensured faster HIPAA alignment.
Automating sandbox → prod governance reduced human error.
Continuous training helped OneCare’s team self-manage post-implementation.

CloudOps

Company : OneCare

OneCare, a healthcare provider, required a secure and compliant AWS multi-account environment to meet HIPAA requirements, with dedicated sandbox, development, and production environments. By implementing strong governance, preventive/detective controls, and continuous monitoring, OneCare achieved HIPAA compliance and improved operational efficiency.

Problem Statement / Definition

Healthcare workloads required HIPAA compliance and data security.
Lack of environment separation risked PHI (Protected Health Information) exposure.
No centralized security monitoring across accounts.
Audit readiness required automation and consistent control enforcement.

Proposed Solution & Architecture

Multi-Account Strategy: Used AWS Control Tower and Organizations to set up Production, Development, and Sandbox OUs.
Security & Compliance: Enabled GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config Conformance Packs aligned to HIPAA controls.
Preventive Controls: SCPs preventing unencrypted data storage and CloudTrail deletion.
Detective Controls: Config rules to detect public buckets, unrestricted security groups.
Centralized Logging: All CloudTrail and Config logs sent to Log Archive account.
Automation: EventBridge + SSM for remediation, IaC templates for provisioning.

Outcomes of Project & Success Metrics

Achieved HIPAA compliance certification readiness within 6 months.
Reduced environment provisioning time from weeks to <1 day.
Zero PHI data exposure incidents after security baseline was enforced.
Improved audit readiness with centralized evidence collection (Security Hub reports).