##### Security Resource

# HIPAA Compliance, Minus the Data Detours With Arpio

## HIPAA Compliance, Minus the Data Detours With Arpio

### **HIPAA, in 90 Seconds:**

HIPAA is about protecting Protected Health Information (PHI). The Privacy Rule governs who can use or disclose PHI. The Security Rule governs how electronic PHI (ePHI) is safeguarded. The Breach Notification Rule tells you what to do if something goes wrong. In practice, security teams live inside 164.308, 164.310, and 164.312. The famous DR bits sit in the Security Rule’s “Contingency Plan” standard, which calls for a data backup plan, disaster recovery plan, emergency mode operations, and regular testing. None of this says a third party must ever see PHI to help you meet those outcomes.

### **The Big Idea: Arpio Helps by What it Does Not Do:**

Arpio is Disaster Recovery as a Service for AWS that orchestrates your recovery through the secure AWS API. Arpio does not inspect your PHI, does not proxy your data through our systems, and does not persist your application data in our platform. Your data stays in your AWS accounts, encrypted with your keys, logged by your CloudTrail, guarded by your network policies. Arpio supplies the runbook automation that you trigger. You stay the data controller and the security owner.

### **Why This Matters for HIPAA**

**No PHI Handling by Arpio**  
We do not create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI in order to perform DR. That significantly reduces data exposure pathways and simplifies vendor risk conversations.

**Your Keys, Your Logs, Your Walls**  
Encryption, IAM, VPCs, firewalls, and audit logs are configured and owned by you. Arpio operates through customer-managed, least-privilege roles and leaves your telemetry in your systems.

**No Data Detours**  
Recovery actions call AWS services inside your accounts and target regions. There is no Arpio-operated data plane for your workloads.

**Support Without Screenshots of Charts Full of PHI**  
We do not need database dumps or application payloads to troubleshoot recovery. Keep PHI out of tickets.

**Testing Without Exposure**  
Regular drills prove you can meet Recovery Time and Recovery Point targets. Arpio produces evidence of actions, timing, and outcomes. The data never has to leave your environment for that evidence to exist.

### **What Arpio Does Do:**

**Automates the Contingency Playbook**  
Orchestrates the sequence of network, data services, apps, and health checks for a clean recovery in a second region or account. Repeatable and safe to run multiple times.

**Documents the Results**  
Drill and recovery reports with timestamps, requested actions and outcomes so auditors see that your plans are not just binders.

**Stays AWS-Native**  
Uses the AWS API inside your tenancy. Honors your encryption, IAM boundaries, and logging. No black box side channels.

### **What Arpio Will Not Do:**

**We will not** proxy, store, exfiltrate, or index your PHI.

**We will not** ask for your application data to “analyze” recovery.

**We will not** bypass your IAM, KMS, or network controls.

### **Shared Responsibility, Plainly:**

Think of Arpio as the control plane for your recovery workflow. You keep the data plane. You own PHI, keys, networks, and logs. Arpio drives the AWS APIs to stand your stack back up quickly and consistently, inside your walls.

### **Compliance Note:**

Your legal team decides whether a Business Associate Agreement is needed. Arpio is designed so that PHI handling is not required for DR operations. Many customers determine that Arpio does not act as a Business Associate for this use case.

### **Bottom Line:**

Arpio helps you satisfy the intent of HIPAA’s contingency planning by proving fast, reliable recovery without putting a third party in the middle of your PHI. No data detours. No new data processors. Just the recovery you need, inside the controls you already trust.

## Want to Learn More?

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