HIPAA Penetration Testing for Healthcare
Protecting electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) means proving you have tested the controls that protect it. StandardPentest delivers HIPAA-aligned penetration testing for covered entities and business associates, mapped to the HIPAA Security Rule's administrative, physical, and technical safeguards. Audit-ready findings, a signed attestation letter, and a free retest, in 24 hours.
What We Test
- •External attack surface against systems that store, process, or transmit ePHI
- •Internal segmentation between ePHI environments and the rest of your network
- •Application-layer testing of patient-facing portals, EHR/EMR integrations, and clinician workflows
- •API testing for FHIR endpoints, HL7 interfaces, and integrations with payers, labs, and pharmacies
- •Authentication and access controls including role-based access and minimum-necessary enforcement
- •Audit logging coverage and integrity for ePHI access events
- •Encryption at rest and in transit for ePHI, including key management and TLS posture
- •Business associate integrations and trust relationships
Our Methodology
Every HIPAA engagement is scoped against your defined ePHI environment and data-flow diagram. The workflow runs in four phases: scope validation against your Risk Analysis (164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)) and asset inventory, automated and manual vulnerability discovery aligned to NIST SP 800-66 and the HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards, exploitation under strict rules of engagement that never use real PHI, and reporting that maps every finding to the relevant Security Rule citation.
What You Get
- •An executive summary aligned to the HIPAA Security Rule's required and addressable specifications
- •Per-finding technical detail with CVSS 3.1 scoring, evidence, and remediation guidance
- •Direct mapping of every finding to specific Security Rule citations (administrative, physical, and technical safeguards)
- •An attestation letter naming the systems tested, dates, methodology, and outcome
- •A Risk Analysis input document feeding 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) workflows
- •A free retest of remediated findings within 90 days
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you ever access real PHI during testing?
No. Every engagement is scoped to use synthetic data, masked data, or de-identified data only. If a finding requires demonstrating that PHI is reachable, we prove the path without exfiltrating any real records.
Will you sign a Business Associate Agreement?
Yes. We sign a BAA before kickoff for every healthcare engagement, even when the engagement is scoped specifically to avoid PHI access.
Does this satisfy our HIPAA audit and OCR documentation needs?
Yes. Penetration testing is widely treated as evidence supporting the Risk Analysis and Evaluation requirements of the Security Rule. Our deliverables include the citations and Risk Analysis inputs OCR investigators and your auditors will look for.
What about HITRUST?
HITRUST CSF includes its own penetration testing requirements that overlap heavily with HIPAA. We can scope a single engagement to satisfy both, with separate deliverable sections for each framework.
Tell us your covered-entity or business-associate role and we'll scope your test against your ePHI environment.