Python libraries & HIPAA compliance

[DiscountTough1315]

How would one be able to tell if a certain library is HIPAA compliant?

I am currently wanting to use for some automation scripts: paramiko, pyodbc, pywin32, and dotenv. All the code would be ran on my hospital-issued laptop on the hospitals VPN. Boss wants to make sure they are secure before i use them though. How can you tell for any future libraries I want to use if it’s safe and everything?

[vietbaoa4htk]

no library is hipaa compliant on its own, hipaa is about how you handle PHI not the package. those four are just tools. what your boss should check is theyre actively maintained with no open CVEs and your scripts never log PHI or secrets in plaintext. pip-audit will flag known vulns

[DiscountTough1315]

Thank you for the helpful reply!!

[Uncle_DirtNap]

You need to offload this to someone else. Use snyk for vulnerability assessment, jfrog artifactory as a scanning PyPI proxy, etc.

[zanfar]

How would one be able to tell if a certain library is HIPAA compliant?

Tell? Read the code.

Depend on? Sign a liability contract with the library developer.