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Healthcare & HIPAA Compliance
45 CFR § 164.312ePHI ProtectionTechnical Safeguards

Servicios de Pruebas de Penetración HIPAA

Cumplimiento de Security Rule bajo 45 CFR § 164.312

100%
Safeguard Coverage
All §164.312 controls tested
72hr
Initial Report
Critical findings delivered fast
0
ePHI Exposures
Our clients' target
$2M+
Avg. Breach Cost
What you're avoiding
What Is HIPAA Penetration Testing?

HIPAA penetration testing is a controlled, authorized attack simulation against systems that store, process, or transmit electronic protected health information (ePHI). It maps directly to the technical safeguard requirements in 45 CFR § 164.312 — access controls, audit controls, integrity controls, authentication, and transmission security. The goal? Find exploitable vulnerabilities before an attacker or an OCR auditor does.

Dónde fallan los proyectos

Your annual risk analysis checks a box It doesn't simulate a real attack against ePHI systems. OCR findings of willful neglect can trigger penalties up to $2.13M per violation category per year — and "we ran a scan" won't save you.
Generic vulnerability scans don't catch application-layer flaws in patient portals or EHR integrations SQL injection or broken access control in a patient portal exposes entire ePHI databases. Those bugs won't show up in an automated report.
§164.312(a)(1) requires access controls, but when did you last test whether session tokens or RBAC actually hold under pressure? One privilege escalation bug lets any authenticated user pull any patient record they want. A single privilege escalation bug lets any authenticated user access any patient record.
Audit logging exists on paper but hasn't been validated under adversarial conditions per §164.312(b) When a breach happens and OCR asks what was accessed, by whom, and when — you need an answer that holds up.
You've got TLS, so transmission security feels handled But cipher suites and certificate chains rarely get tested. Downgrade attacks and misconfigured certificates can expose ePHI in transit without triggering a single alert.
Business associates handle ePHI through APIs you've probably never tested for authentication bypass per §164.312(d) A BA's compromised credentials become your breach notification problem.

Cumplimiento

Access Control Testing — §164.312(a)

We attempt to bypass unique user identification, emergency access procedures, automatic logoff, and encryption/decryption mechanisms. Every required and addressable implementation specification gets tested with real exploit techniques — not theoretical ones.

Audit Control Validation — §164.312(b)

We verify that your audit logs actually captured our attack activity, accurately and completely. If we can modify, delete, or evade audit trails, you've got a compliance gap that'll hurt when it matters most.

Integrity Control Testing — §164.312(c)(1)

We go after ePHI integrity directly — targeting database records, API responses, and file storage to see whether data can be altered without detection. Integrity mechanisms have to prove tamper-evidence when someone's actively trying to break them.

Person or Entity Authentication — §164.312(d)

We attack authentication across the board: password policies, MFA implementations, session management, API key handling. Credential stuffing, brute force, token forgery — all in scope.

Transmission Security — §164.312(e)(1)

We pick apart TLS configurations, certificate pinning, cipher suite strength, and HSTS enforcement across every ePHI transmission path. Internal traffic between services gets tested too, not just what's exposed at the public edge.

Remediation Verification & Reporting

Every finding includes a CVSS score, the specific §164.312 provision it violates, step-by-step reproduction instructions, and a fix. We retest all critical and high findings after remediation at no extra charge.

Qué construimos

OWASP Top 10 + HIPAA Mapping

Every vulnerability gets mapped to both OWASP categories and the specific 45 CFR § 164.312 implementation specification it violates — so your documentation holds up to scrutiny.

Authenticated & Unauthenticated Testing

We test as four different personas: an external attacker, a low-privilege patient user, a clinical staff member, and an admin. RBAC gets validated at every tier, not just the top.

API & EHR Integration Testing

FHIR endpoints, HL7 interfaces, and third-party BA integrations get tested for injection, broken authentication, and excessive data exposure. These are common weak points that often go untouched.

Cloud Infrastructure Review

AWS, Azure, or GCP environments get assessed for S3 bucket exposure, IAM misconfigurations, and network segmentation failures around ePHI workloads.

Social Engineering Add-On

We also offer optional phishing and pretexting campaigns targeting staff with ePHI access. Technical safeguards only go so far — the human layer needs testing too.

OCR-Ready Deliverables

Final reports are structured to directly support your HIPAA risk analysis documentation and show due diligence to OCR investigators. This isn't a generic PDF you'll struggle to explain.

Nuestro proceso

01

Scoping & Rules of Engagement

We start by identifying every system that touches ePHI, defining testing boundaries, signing a BAA, and setting up communication protocols for critical findings. No surprises mid-engagement.
Week 1
02

Reconnaissance & Threat Modeling

Then we map your attack surface the way an adversary would — OSINT, DNS enumeration, technology fingerprinting, and an architecture review against each §164.312 control.
Week 1-2
03

Active Exploitation

From there, it's manual and tool-assisted testing across all in-scope targets. We chain vulnerabilities together the way a real attacker would. We're not running a scanner and handing you the output.
Week 2-3
04

Reporting & Risk Prioritization

You get a detailed technical report with an executive summary, §164.312 compliance mapping, CVSS-scored findings, proof-of-concept evidence, and prioritized remediation guidance.
Week 3-4
05

Remediation Verification

After your team addresses the critical and high findings, we retest to confirm they're actually fixed — then issue an updated attestation letter.
Week 5-6
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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Se requiere una prueba de penetración por la HIPAA Security Rule?

La Security Rule requiere un análisis de riesgos bajo §164.308(a)(1) y una evaluación técnica bajo §164.308(a)(8). La frase "prueba de penetración" nunca aparece en la regulación, pero la guía de OCR y NIST SP 800-66 dejan claro que los ataques simulados contra las salvaguardas técnicas son la forma esperada de demostrar cumplimiento. La mayoría de los auditores lo esperan, y los que no lo hacen seguirán queriendo prueba de que has hecho algo equivalente.

¿Firman un Acuerdo de Asociado de Negocios?

Sí — cualquier proyecto donde podríamos encontrar ePHI requiere un BAA, y ejecutamos uno antes de que comience la prueba. Nuestra metodología está diseñada para minimizar la exposición de ePHI. Siempre que sea factible, validamos que el acceso es posible sin exfiltrar datos reales del paciente.

¿Cuál es la diferencia entre un escaneo de vulnerabilidades y una prueba de penetración?

Un escaneo de vulnerabilidades ejecuta herramientas automatizadas para encontrar debilidades conocidas. Una prueba de penetración va más allá. Explotamos manualmente vulnerabilidades, las encadenamos y te mostramos impacto en el mundo real. Los escáneres pierden defectos de lógica, controles de acceso rotos y evasiones de autenticación — que resultan ser exactamente los problemas que más importan para la protección de ePHI bajo §164.312.

¿Con qué frecuencia deben realizar pruebas de penetración las organizaciones de salud?

Como mínimo, prueba anualmente y después de cualquier cambio significativo en tu entorno ePHI — un nuevo portal de pacientes, migración en la nube, lanzamiento de código importante o revisión de infraestructura. ¿Tuviste una brecha o un susto? Prueba inmediatamente. OCR espera que tu análisis de riesgos sea continuo, no algo que hiciste una vez en 2019.

¿Interrumpirá la prueba de penetración nuestros sistemas de salud en producción?

Diseñamos reglas de enfrentamiento específicamente para prevenir interrupciones. Las pruebas de denegación de servicio quedan fuera del alcance a menos que las solicites explícitamente contra un entorno de staging. Las pruebas de alto riesgo se programan durante ventanas de mantenimiento, y permanecemos en contacto constante con tu equipo en todo momento. En más de 12 años, nunca hemos causado tiempo de inactividad no planificado.

¿Qué recibimos en el informe final?

Recibes un resumen ejecutivo, un informe técnico completo con cada hallazgo mapeado a las disposiciones §164.312, puntuaciones CVSS, capturas de pantalla de prueba de concepto, instrucciones paso a paso para reproducción y orientación de remediación priorizada. Una vez que hayas remediado, repetimos las pruebas e emitimos una carta de atestación actualizada que realmente puedas entregar a un investigador de OCR.

HIPAA Penetration Testing from $8,000
Fixed-fee engagement. BAA included. Retest at no extra cost.
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