HIPAA Penetration Testing

Penetration testing that proves your safeguards protect ePHI under real attack, not just that a policy exists on paper

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HIPAA Penetration Testing That Protects ePHI

Your risk analysis is only as strong as the testing behind it. Most vendors hand you a scan report and a letter. Raxis delivers human-led, AI-augmented penetration testing mapped to the HIPAA Security Rule that shows your safeguards actually protect electronic protected health information. It pairs with our healthcare penetration testing for full coverage.

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Web, API, and Network Testing

Hands-on testing across the applications, cloud, and infrastructure that store, process, or transmit ePHI, not just a surface scan.

Risk-Based Scoping

We scope every engagement to the systems in your risk analysis, so you test where ePHI actually lives.

Security Rule Alignment

Every finding tied to the safeguards your assessor evaluates, including the risk analysis and evaluation requirements under 164.308.

The Problem with Most HIPAA Pentests

HIPAA doesn’t hand you a pentest checklist. The Security Rule expects a risk analysis under 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) and periodic evaluation under 164.308(a)(8), and OCR expects proof both are real. The real question is whether your pentest reduces risk to ePHI or just fills a binder.

A Scan With a Cover Letter

Many vendors just rebrand an automated scan. It clears a light-touch review but misses the chained weaknesses and logic flaws a real attacker uses to reach ePHI. Raxis tests by hand.

Testing That Ignores Your Scope

HIPAA applies wherever ePHI is created, received, stored, or transmitted. A test that ignores that footprint checks the wrong things. Raxis scopes to the systems in your risk analysis.

Findings Your Auditor Can’t Use

A raw CVE list tells your compliance team nothing about ePHI risk. Raxis maps every finding to the relevant Security Rule safeguard, so your report supports your risk analysis directly.

A Point-in-Time Snapshot

One annual test is a snapshot, stale after your next system change. The Security Rule expects periodic evaluation, and Raxis Attack (PTaaS) tests continuously to match.

Why Raxis for HIPAA Penetration Testing

Find real vulnerabilities, not just scan output

OSCP-certified engineers manually attack your environment the way a real threat actor would. You get findings that actually reduce risk to ePHI and demonstrate safeguard effectiveness, not a reformatted scanner report your assessor has seen a hundred times.

Mapped to the Security Rule

Every finding ties back to the safeguards your assessor evaluates, including the technical safeguards under 164.312 and the risk analysis and evaluation requirements under 164.308. The connection to your compliance program is explicit.

A report your auditor accepts

You get an executive summary, detailed findings mapped to the Security Rule, methodology, remediation guidance, and an attestation letter. Your compliance team gets documentation ready for OCR or a partner’s security review, without extra translation work.

Close the loop with remediation retesting

Raxis doesn’t just find problems. After your team remediates, we retest to confirm the fixes hold. Documented issues, resolved and verified, are exactly the evidence a HIPAA risk management program is built on.

Evidence for your risk analysis

Testing feeds directly into your Security Rule risk analysis under 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A), giving you real data on where ePHI is exposed instead of assumptions on a spreadsheet.

Continuous testing for periodic evaluation

HIPAA expects periodic evaluation, not a once-a-year exercise. Raxis Attack (PTaaS) delivers continuous, AI-augmented testing with real-time results and unlimited retesting through the Raxis One portal, so your safeguards stay proven as your systems change.

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Frequently Asked Questions About HIPAA Penetration Testing

It’s a hands-on simulated attack against the systems that create, receive, store, or transmit ePHI, including your web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and internal networks. The goal is to validate that your Security Rule safeguards work under real attack conditions while producing evidence for your risk analysis.

Not by name. The HIPAA Security Rule requires a risk analysis under 164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A) and periodic evaluation under 164.308(a)(8), but doesn’t name a specific pentest. In practice, assessors and OCR expect penetration testing as evidence that your safeguards are effective.

Most HIPAA pentests are automated scans with minimal manual validation and no connection to the Security Rule. Raxis engineers lead every engagement with hands-on testing scoped to where ePHI lives. Every finding maps to the relevant safeguard, so your report is ready for your risk analysis without extra work from your compliance team.

We test web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), internal and external networks, and authentication and authorization systems across your healthcare environment, including EHR platforms and patient portals. Every engagement is scoped around the systems that store, process, or transmit ePHI.

Most directly the technical safeguards under 164.312, such as access control and transmission security, and the administrative safeguards under 164.308, including your risk analysis and evaluation. Raxis maps every finding to the relevant safeguard so the connection is clear for your assessor.

Raxis Attack is our Penetration Testing as a Service platform, delivering continuous, AI-augmented testing with real-time results and unlimited retesting through the secure Raxis One portal. For HIPAA, it demonstrates the periodic evaluation the Security Rule calls for, rather than relying on a single annual snapshot.

At minimum annually, and after significant changes to systems that touch ePHI. The Security Rule requires periodic evaluation, and many healthcare organizations choose continuous testing through Raxis Attack to keep evidence current between reviews.

Yes. After testing, Raxis works with your team to prioritize and address findings, then conducts retesting to confirm fixes are effective. This closed-loop process produces the kind of evidence auditors value most: identified vulnerabilities, documented remediation, and verified resolution.

Raxis testers hold industry-leading certifications including OSCP, CEH, GPEN, GFACT, and more listed on our certifications page.

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