This engagement tests the systems that hold and move patient data the way an attacker would, and delivers a report that speaks to your HIPAA obligations and the security reviews your healthcare customers will run before they trust you.
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Healthtech products carry an unusual combination of pressures: highly sensitive patient data, strict regulation, and a sprawl of integrations with providers, labs, and insurers. Any one of those integrations can leak protected health information if access control fails, and the consequences are measured in both regulatory penalties and human harm.
This engagement tests the systems that hold and move patient data the way an attacker would, and delivers a report that speaks to your HIPAA obligations and the security reviews your healthcare customers will run before they trust you.
Health records sell for more than credit cards on criminal markets because they contain everything needed for long-term fraud and cannot simply be reissued. That makes healthtech a deliberate target, not a bystander, and the attack surface is wide: a patient portal, a clinician dashboard, a mobile app, and a mesh of data-exchange APIs.
The dominant risk is broken access control over patient data. When one patient can view another's records by changing an identifier, or a lower-privileged user reaches clinical functions, that is both a severe security failure and a reportable breach. These flaws are invisible to scanners and require a human testing with multiple accounts.
Your customers, whether hospitals, clinics, or larger platforms, will not integrate with you until you can show independent security testing. A clear, HIPAA-aware penetration test report is often the deciding evidence in a healthcare procurement or partnership review.
Systematic testing of whether any user can reach records belonging to other patients or providers by manipulating identifiers, across every record and document type.
The boundaries between patient, clinician, and admin roles, ensuring no role can perform actions or read data outside its remit.
The interfaces that share PHI with external systems, checked for authorization enforcement and over-exposure of data.
PHI cached or stored insecurely on devices, transmitted without encryption, or leaked through logs and error messages.
The report supports your compliance posture and guides your team. It contains:
An endpoint returning a record by id without confirming the requester is authorized for that patient, exposing PHI to any logged-in user.
Data-exchange APIs returning more patient data than the consuming system requires, magnifying the impact of any compromise.
Clinical or patient data cached unencrypted on a device, recoverable if the device is lost or compromised.
Patient identifiers or data appearing where they can be cached, logged, or shown to the wrong party.
The focus shifts to patient-data access control and the integrations that move PHI, tested with multiple accounts to prove that no user can reach another patient's data. Generic scans and even generic manual tests often miss these context-specific authorization flaws.
No. We use a staging environment or synthetic test data and agree strict rules of engagement, so no real PHI is exposed during the assessment.
Yes. Healthcare buyers routinely require evidence of independent security testing, and a clear HIPAA-aware report is frequently the item that unblocks the procurement or partnership.
If you handle PHI as a business associate, you are directly liable under HIPAA, and your covered-entity partners will require testing regardless of your label.
Book a free 30-minute scoping call. We agree the scope, timeline, and a fixed price up front — no obligation, and no surprises for your deadline.