Reusing results from cloud providers, vendors and your own earlier assessments: inheritance, shared responsibility matrices, carve-outs, reliance on SOC 2 and other reports, and becoming an inheritance provider.
How inheritance pulls validated scores from a provider's or your own HITRUST assessment into yours: eligible source assessments, request timing, full versus partial inheritance with weights, where it is not allowed, and the hours HITRUST says it saves.
What a HITRUST Shared Responsibility Matrix tells you about which requirements a provider can cover, how provider-specific and baseline SRMs are used in inheritance requests, why an SRM is not evidence, and which domains rarely transfer.
What changes when your platform runs on a cloud provider with its own HITRUST certification: the share of requirements HITRUST says can be inherited, which domains inherit well or poorly, what the provider's certification does not cover and how incubation is handled.
Choosing how to treat cloud and service providers in a HITRUST assessment: carving them out of an e1 or i1, why the r2 allows no carve-outs, and when inheritance, reliance on reports or direct testing is the better route.
When an External Assessor can rely on a provider's SOC 2 Type II or other audit report instead of testing directly: age, scope, independence and mapping rules, why a SOC 2 Type I does not qualify, and how SOC 2 work can feed an e1.
What a SaaS or platform vendor does to let customers inherit from its HITRUST certification: enabling external inheritance, approving requests, publishing its own SRM, avoiding gaps at recertification, and how widely customers use inheritance.
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