HEALTHCARE PENETRATION TESTING
Patient portals, shared identities and clinical integrations connect your organisation to patients, partners and providers. We test the paths between them, with agreed controls for sensitive data and service continuity.
Find where a digital interaction can cross into another patient’s records, an overprivileged service account or a poorly separated support network.
A healthcare estate extends beyond one hospital. We connect identity, referrals, remote care and third-party integrations into a scope that follows the patient-data journey.
A patient portal can be well defended at the login screen while a laboratory integration accepts a record identifier without checking the requesting organisation. The valuable test follows those hand-offs, including the support processes that sit outside the main application.
Inside the engagement02 / TESTING SCOPE
Test the permissions behind the patient experience, from account recovery to record sharing.
Patient, clinician, proxy and administrator role boundaries · Record/document identifiers and cross-organisation access
Follow the access paths between distributed sites, identity services and sensitive systems.
External exposure and approved internal trust paths · Active Directory/cloud identity and remote support access
Examine the permissions that third parties retain after the integration goes live.
Partner API scopes and organisation binding · Support-session expiry, revocation and audit trails
A controlled process.
Evidence at every step.
Define systems, identities, objectives, permissions and operating constraints.
Connect relevant attack scenarios to the services and data you need to protect.
Use synthetic patient identities and agreed data cohorts. Name a clinical escalation contact, set request limits and exclude treatment-affecting actions unless separately authorised. Stop immediately if testing encounters unexpected live clinical data or threatens a care workflow.
Record actions, responses, effective controls and the limits of access gained.
Prioritise findings, assign ownership and retest agreed acceptance criteria.
A test should inform your security decisions.
Healthcare security requirements depend on entity, location and processing. For EU organisations, assess NIS2 scope and national implementation alongside GDPR security obligations. For US covered entities and business associates, consider HIPAA separately. A pentest contributes technical evidence; it does not determine legal applicability or certify compliance.
INSIDE THE SAMPLE REPORT
The fictional Healthcare AG case contains 68 pages, three connected scenarios, twelve findings and individual treatment plans.
Preview the sample reportScoped scans, WAF responses, shell context and downstream API results.
Separate unaided access, approved assistance, blocked routes and unperformed actions.
Owners, immediate safeguards, durable fixes and completed or pending retests.
04 / INSIGHTS & PERSPECTIVES
Build the scope around patient-data journeys, identities and integrations, not an asset count alone.
Read the perspective
Use synthetic patients and role pairs to test who can see, export and change each record.
Read the perspectiveConnect technical findings to risk ownership while keeping legal applicability and audit conclusions separate.
Read the perspectiveA PRACTICAL STARTING POINT
Bring systems, permissions, operating constraints and evidence needs together.
LET’S START A CONVERSATION
Your systems, operating constraints and security objectives. A clear starting point for the test.
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