This engagement targets the systems that store, process, or transmit ePHI, whether you are a covered entity or a business associate, and produces a report your compliance team and any auditor can rely on.
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HIPAA holds you responsible for protecting electronic protected health information, and the Security Rule requires a periodic technical evaluation of the safeguards that protect it. A penetration test is how you turn that requirement into concrete evidence: an independent examination of whether an attacker could actually reach patient data.
This engagement targets the systems that store, process, or transmit ePHI, whether you are a covered entity or a business associate, and produces a report your compliance team and any auditor can rely on.
The HIPAA Security Rule calls for a technical evaluation of your safeguards, and after a breach, regulators and your own board will ask what independent testing you performed. A penetration test answers that question directly and shows a good-faith effort to secure ePHI rather than a paperwork exercise.
Health data is among the most valuable targets there is, which is why healthcare is disproportionately hit by breaches. The systems at risk are rarely a single app: they are a web portal, a mobile app, an API, and a web of integrations with labs, insurers, and other providers, each of which can leak PHI if access control fails.
If you are a business associate, your covered-entity customers will demand evidence of testing before they trust you with PHI, and a clear penetration test report is the fastest way to pass their security review and win the contract.
Whether one patient or user can reach another patient's records by manipulating identifiers, the highest-impact failure in any health system, tested against every record type.
Login security, session handling, and the boundaries between patient, clinician, and administrator roles, so no role can read data it should not.
The APIs and data exchanges (including FHIR/HL7-style interfaces) that move PHI between systems, checking that each enforces authorization and does not over-expose data.
Encryption in transit and at rest, PHI appearing in logs, URLs, or error messages, and insecure storage in mobile clients.
The report supports your HIPAA evaluation and guides your engineers. It contains:
An endpoint returns a medical record by id without confirming the requester is authorized for that patient, exposing PHI to any authenticated user.
Patient identifiers or clinical data leaking into places that are cached, logged, or shown to the wrong user.
Health apps caching PHI unencrypted on the device, recoverable from a lost or compromised phone.
Data-exchange endpoints returning more PHI than the consuming system needs, widening the blast radius of any compromise.
HIPAA does not use the exact words penetration test, but the Security Rule requires a periodic technical evaluation of your safeguards, and a penetration test is the standard way to satisfy and evidence that requirement. Auditors and customers treat it as expected.
Yes. Business associates are directly liable under HIPAA for the ePHI they handle, and your covered-entity customers will almost always require evidence of independent testing before entrusting you with data.
No. We test against a staging environment or with synthetic test data wherever possible, and we agree strict rules of engagement up front so no real PHI is exposed during the assessment.
It documents an independent technical evaluation mapped to the Security Rule safeguards, with a remediation trail. That is exactly the evidence of due diligence that regulators and customers look for.
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