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HIPAA penetration testing before patient data leaks.

Health platforms fail in the same few places: one patient seeing another's records, staff roles that reach too far, and APIs that trust the caller. We test those paths with synthetic records and give you evidence for your risk analysis.

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What HIPAA asks for.

The Security Rule asks you to find and reduce risks to ePHI, and to evaluate your safeguards over time. A penetration test is direct evidence for both.

§164.308

Requires a risk analysis, risk management, and periodic technical evaluation of your safeguards.

2025

The year HHS proposed requiring a penetration test at least every 12 months.

0 ePHI

The real patient data we access. We test with synthetic records and test accounts.

Section 164.308 requires an accurate risk analysis, risk management, and periodic technical and nontechnical evaluation. Section 164.312 sets the technical safeguards we test against: access control, authentication, and transmission security.

The current rule does not name penetration testing. In January 2025, HHS proposed an update that would require one at least every 12 months. Check the rule's current status with your compliance lead. Covered entities and business associates already use a test as their strongest evaluation evidence.

HIPAAWhat we testEvidence
308(a)(1)Findings feed the risk analysiscovered
308(a)(8)Periodic technical evaluationcovered
312(a)(1)Patient and role access controlcovered
312(d)Person or entity authenticationcovered
312(e)(1)Transmission security checksscoped
308(a)(1)Risk management: fix and retestretest

What we test.

We focus on the application layer, where most real breaches of customer data start: accounts, permissions, and the APIs behind the interface.

Patient data isolation

Can one patient, provider, or clinic read another's records, documents, messages, or lab results?

Staff roles

Whether front-desk, billing, and clinician roles reach only what they need, and whether access ends at offboarding.

Health APIs

FHIR and partner APIs, mobile backends, and integrations that accept patient IDs or trust tokens too broadly.

Uploads and exports

Shared files, attachments, report exports, and links that stay open after they should expire.

From scoping call to evidence file.

One engagement produces the report your auditor reads and the retest that shows the fixes worked.

  1. 01
    Scope

    We map the systems in your audit scope to what we test, and agree on accounts, limits, and dates.

    30-minute call
  2. 02
    Test

    Agents and researchers work the agreed apps and APIs. A human reproduces every finding.

    Test accounts only
  3. 03
    Report

    Methodology, scope, dates, and per-finding evidence with a fix your engineers can apply.

    Auditor-ready
  4. 04
    Retest

    After you fix, we retest the same paths and record the result for your evidence file.

    Closes the loop

Questions teams ask first.

Does HIPAA require a penetration test?
The current Security Rule requires risk analysis and periodic technical evaluation but does not name penetration testing. HHS proposed in 2025 to require it at least every 12 months. Many covered entities, and the hospitals and payers that buy from health tech vendors, already expect one.
Will you access real patient data?
No. We test with synthetic records and dedicated test accounts, and agree on off-limits actions before we start.
Do you sign a BAA?
We design testing so we never need access to ePHI. If your counsel still wants a BAA, raise it on the scoping call and we will work through it with you.
We sell to hospitals. Does this help with their security reviews?
Yes. A recent third-party test with fixes retested is one of the first things hospital and payer security reviews ask for.

Get your test on the calendar.

Tell us your audit window and what is in scope. We will tell you what to test first and what the report needs to show.

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