SAN zoning, masking and compliance

How should they be fabric SAN zoning and masking be addressed, if respect for standards such as HIPAA, SOX, FISMA is in sight?

Which of these questions are involved?

1 area and mask ESXi hosts that are within the scope of compliance so that ESXi hosts that are not in the scope are in separate areas?

2. use the more granular and more stringent zoning and masking in general, to demonstrate higher standards if the infrastructure design is audited, so that each ESXI host has its own area or each cluster of ESXi has its own area, even within the scope of the compliance area?

How should I think about zoning and masking from a compliance point of view?

Thank you!

Hello

If you encrypt the data within the VM, then separate data stores are not really necessary, however, you can use separate storage of data for HIPAA data just to keep things simpler for audits. If it was me, I would like to keep them separated, it will be much easier compliance checks and remove non - HIPAA VMs to a scope of the audit. In HyTrust I would implement a HIPAA tag on the virtual machine, the virtual networks in use, and data warehouses. This way I can have a clean audit.

From a technical point of view, it really depends on when you encrypt your HIPAA data. Practically speaking, HIPAA, it's all about the audit. Facilitate the audit, but don't waste any resources for this purpose calculation can be shared (you need maybe disable the GST or get the latest patches GST however.)

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