Pentesting for HIPAA
HIPAA is the US law protecting health information. It applies to covered entities and their business associates that handle electronic protected health information (ePHI). The Security Rule requires risk analysis and periodic technical evaluation, which a pentest supports. Civil penalties can reach about $1.9 million per year, and serious violations can bring criminal charges.
The controls we cover
Requirement summaryThe covered entity or business associate must conduct an accurate and thorough assessment of risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of electronic protected health information.
AISafe identifies and validates the technical vulnerabilities that the risk analysis must account for, feeding the assessment with concrete findings.
Requirement summaryThe entity must perform a periodic technical and nontechnical evaluation of its security policies and procedures to establish whether they meet the Security Rule requirements.
AISafe provides current technical testing between review cycles so the periodic evaluation is based on up-to-date safeguard performance.
Requirement summaryImplement technical policies for access control, audit controls, integrity, authentication, and transmission security that protect electronic protected health information and control access to it.
AISafe exercises access control, authentication, and data-path security in applications and APIs that handle ePHI, exposing gaps in these technical safeguards.
Quick facts
| Applicability | Covered entities (providers, health plans, clearinghouses) and their business associates that handle ePHI. |
| Requirement | Yes. The Security Rule requires risk analysis and periodic technical evaluation. |
| Cost | Scoped to systems touching ePHI; a smaller organization with fewer systems pays less, and automation keeps recurring evaluation affordable. |
| Cadence | Periodic, commonly yearly, and after environmental or operational changes. |
AISafe Labs delivers on-demand, audit-ready evidence for HIPAA: technical testing with reproducible findings and retested fixes in applications and APIs that handle ePHI , in hours, where other vendors take weeks. AISafe Labs does not certify HIPAA compliance or replace the organization’s complete risk analysis.