1st Edition
The HIPAA Compliance Blueprint A Complete Guideline for Healthcare Providers, Practices, and Business Associates
Dedication. About the Author. Preface. Part I — Foundations. Chapter 1:
Step 1: Understand HIPAA and Your Obligations. Chapter 2: Step 2: Conduct a Risk Assessment. Part II — Governance and Program Design. Chapter 3: Step 3: Build Your Compliance Governance Framework. Part III — Safeguards (Physical and Technical). Chapter 4: Step 4: Secure Your Physical Environment. Chapter 5: Step 5: Technical Safeguards. Part IV — External Dependencies and Response. Chapter 6: Step 6: Manage Vendors and Business Associates. Chapter 7: Step 7: Create a Breach Response and Incident Plan. Part V — People and Assurance. Chapter 8: Step 8: Train and Educate Your Workforce. Chapter 9: Step 9: Conduct Internal Audits and Continuous Monitoring. Part VI — Sustainment. Chapter 10: Step 10: Maintain, Improve, and Certify Compliance. Chapter 11: Case Studies and Lessons. Chapter 12: The Ruman HIPAA Framework. Appendices. Index.
Biography
Saleh A. AbuRumman, M.S., is a Network and Infrastructure Security Engineer. A graduate of DePaul University, Saleh earned his Master’s in Network Engineering and Security, graduating at the top of his class designing and implementing a Zero-Trust Security Architecture for HIPAACompliant Enterprise Security Frameworks, a model that merges healthcare compliance with next-generation infrastructure resilience.
Saleh is the Founder and Principal Engineer at Ruman Cyber Advisory, a Cybersecurity Compliance Consulting firm based in Chicago. Saleh leads a select team of graduate engineers from DePaul University who share his passion for building secure, intelligent systems that meet the highest standards of compliance and performance. Together, they form the backbone of Ruman Cyber Advisory’s enterprise-grade solutions for healthcare and financial institutions.
Saleh’s professional experience spans over a decade with leading roles at Bank of America, Bank of Montreal, and the like, where he engineered and secured critical enterprise systems. At Bank of America, he played a key role in the development of a major security automation initiative and designing a Python-based AI integration that reduced false positives across financial compliance systems by more than five years of accumulated inefficiency. His work streamlined sensitive data handling across enterprise security layers, improving accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Guided by a deep academic foundation and real-world innovation, Saleh and his team bring to each client an unmatched level of expertise in infrastructure security, compliance architecture, and Zero-Trust design. Their work enables organizations, especially in the healthcare and financial sectors, to achieve full HIPAA/GDPR alignment while adopting the most advanced cybersecurity practices available today.
