Challenge
AI platforms that process protected health data face intense scrutiny and heavy penalties for missteps. Chi’Va needed airtight governance without slowing product velocity.
Strategy
- Establish policy as code—version-controlled HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR policies linked to CI gates.
- Architect data flows with encryption in transit and at rest, plus automated key rotation.
- Build an incident-response runbook that routes alerts, ownership, and evidence gathering within minutes.
Execution
- Authored forty-plus internal policies covering access control, breach notification, vendor management, and data-retention.
- Integrated AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, and QLDB to create a tamper-proof audit trail.
- Implemented risk registers and quarterly tabletop drills to validate the playbooks.
- Wired compliance checks into the deployment pipeline—builds fail if a policy control is violated.
Outcomes
- Passed external HIPAA assessment on first attempt with zero high-severity findings.
- Cut evidence-collection time during audits by 70 percent thanks to auto-logged controls.
- Mean time to containment for security incidents now under five minutes, verified through drills.
Key Capabilities Demonstrated
- Systems-level compliance strategy
- Engineering safeguards and automated governance
- Risk-mitigation processes that scale with product growth