A healthcare provider is required to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)is a symmetric block cipher approved by NIST for protecting sensitive data, includingelectronic protected health information (ePHI). It is the recommended encryption method underHIPAA compliance guidelines.

NIST FIPS 197 (Advanced Encryption Standard - AES):

“AES is a symmetric cipher used to protect sensitive electronic data and is approved for use in securing government and healthcare systems.”

WEP is outdated, SMTP is a protocol for email, and RSA is better suited for key exchange, not bulk data encryption.

????WGU Course Alignment:

Domain:Cryptography and Compliance

Topic:Use NIST-approved encryption (AES) for healthcare data under HIPAA