HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

External HIPAA Assessment

The Calm After the Storm: Proactively Securing Your Digital Health Information from External Threats

In the world of healthcare, the single most valuable asset you protect isn't just data; it's trust. The looming shadow of a HIPAA breach—a risk that costs millions in fines and shatters patient confidence—is a constant source of anxiety. Traditional security measures, relying on internal scans and audits, often leave dangerous blind spots. But what if you could see what attackers see? What if you could find and fix vulnerabilities on your external attack surface before they exploit them? ThreatNG offers a new kind of peace of mind. We help you shift from a reactive mindset of fearing the next attack to a proactive one of confident, continuous protection.

The Problem: The External HIPAA Risk Blind Spot

The challenge isn't just meeting compliance standards; it's about defending against a relentless enemy that operates entirely from the outside. For CISOs, heads of IT, and HIPAA compliance officers, the pain points are tangible and constant:

You're exposed and you don't even know it.

Attackers are not looking for your front door; they're hunting for unprotected subdomains, misconfigured cloud storage, and exposed code secrets. These are the external vulnerabilities that traditional, internal-facing tools can't see.

The cost of a breach is catastrophic.

The average price of a healthcare data breach is over $10 million, not including the irreversible damage to your brand and patient trust. This isn't just a financial risk; it's a reputational one.

Compliance is not protection.

You can pass a compliance audit and still be vulnerable. The ticking time bomb of an unpatched vulnerability is not something you can audit away. You need continuous, real-time protection.

Your partners are a potential liability.

How do you ensure your third-party vendors and partners are not exposing you to risk? Their external vulnerabilities become your vulnerabilities.

The ThreatNG Promise: Your Proactive External HIPAA Shield

ThreatNG’s External HIPAA Assessment capability is designed to address these problems by providing a complete, unauthenticated view of your organization's digital attack surface. We empower you to find and fix vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.

External Discovery & Assessment: Our platform performs a purely external discovery, analyzing your web applications, subdomains, and cloud assets. We see what the attackers see, identifying critical vulnerabilities like missing Content Security Policies and exposed web directories that are prime targets for exploitation.
Digital Risk Protection: We go beyond technical vulnerabilities to identify and flag sensitive information exposed on the public internet, such as exposed ePHI or credentials within public GitHub repositories. We help you find and remove these risks before they lead to a breach.
Continuous Monitoring: HIPAA compliance is not a one-time event. ThreatNG continuously monitors your external attack surface, alerting you to new risks and changes in real-time. This provides a continuous security posture that aligns with your HIPAA requirements for ongoing risk analysis and incident response.

Clear HIPAA Alignment Through Actionable External Assessments

ThreatNG streamlines your external HIPAA assessment by providing clear, actionable insights into your security posture from an attacker's perspective. Our easy-to-read reports detail crucial findings, including sensitive Protected Health Information (PHI) exposed in public repositories, compromised credentials, default port scans, and mentions on the dark web. Each finding is meticulously mapped to relevant HIPAA Security Rule requirements, enabling organizations to understand their compliance status and prioritize remediation efforts to enhance their security defenses and protect patient data.

HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Reports

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How ThreatNG is Your Ally

ThreatNG is not just another security tool; it's a partner in your defense. Unlike traditional solutions that require internal access and extensive setup, we offer immediate, unauthenticated external discovery.

No Agent, No Hassle: ThreatNG requires no agents, connectors, or complex integrations. Our external-only scans are non-intrusive and can be deployed instantly, providing a baseline security rating in just minutes.
Uncover the Unknown: While traditional internal scans check for known vulnerabilities on your internal systems, we find the previously unknown external entry points that attackers exploit. We discover rogue subdomains, exposed code secrets, and unmanaged cloud assets that exist outside your perimeter.
Actionable Intelligence: Our platform provides straightforward, actionable remediation steps for every finding. We don't just tell you that you have a problem; we suggest exactly how to fix it, allowing your teams to prioritize and respond effectively.

The Hero Story: Imagine this: A CISO uses ThreatNG to perform an external assessment. Within minutes, the platform flags exposed credentials in a public repository—the keys to the kingdom left in the open. The team utilizes ThreatNG's insights to immediately revoke the credentials, preventing what could have been a catastrophic data breach and avoiding a multi-million-dollar fine and significant reputational damage. The CISO, now a hero, has given their organization the peace of mind that comes from knowing their external blind spots are gone.

Ready to Eliminate Your Blind Spots?

Don't wait for a breach to discover your vulnerabilities. Take control of your external attack surface and protect your patients, your brand, and your peace of mind.

Frequently Asked Questions: The External HIPAA Assessment

These questions and answers are designed to address the core concerns of your target audience, clarifying how the External HIPAA Assessment capability is a crucial, proactive security measure. The content is crafted for clarity and searchability, ensuring it can be easily discovered online.

The "HIPAA Blind Spot" is the unmanaged and invisible external attack surface of your organization. It's everything an attacker can see and exploit from the outside that your internal security tools cannot. Your current program is likely focused on what's inside your perimeter—firewalls, internal scans, and access logs—which is essential but incomplete.
This traditional, inward-looking approach leaves a massive gap. It cannot detect critical, external-facing misconfigurations like forgotten subdomains, publicly exposed APIs, or developer environments with sensitive information. An attacker's first move is to find these weak points, not to challenge your fortified internal defenses. Our External HIPAA Assessment shines a light on this blind spot, ensuring you're not operating with a dangerously outdated view of your risk posture.
A standard vulnerability scan typically checks for known weaknesses on a limited set of IP addresses. ThreatNG’s External HIPAA Assessment performs an unauthenticated, continuous discovery of your entire digital footprint—just like an attacker would. We find all of your exposed assets, including forgotten cloud buckets, leaked credentials on the dark web, and vulnerable login pages.
Crucially, our capability doesn't just list these findings. It directly maps them to the specific sections of the HIPAA Security Rule they violate, such as Access Control (164.312(a)(1)) or Risk Management (164.308(a)(1)(ii)(B)). This provides you with an actionable, GRC-focused report that converts raw technical data into a clear, prioritized checklist for compliance and remediation, making your life easier and your organization more secure.
We discover a wide range of high-consequence external risks that are directly relevant to HIPAA compliance. These include:
- Subdomain Takeovers: Where an attacker can hijack a forgotten or unmonitored subdomain and use it to host a malicious site, enabling sophisticated phishing attacks.
- Open Ports and Exposed Services: Our unauthenticated scans can identify open ports for databases (like PostgreSQL) or remote access services (like SSH/RDP) that are directly exposed to the public internet, providing a clear pathway for unauthorized access and malware deployment.
- Leaked Code Secrets and Credentials: We find sensitive information like API keys, private PGP keys, and login credentials that may have been accidentally exposed in public code repositories or on the dark web. These can be used to bypass authentication and gain initial access to your systems.
Each of these findings represents a direct violation of HIPAA and a serious risk of a data breach, fines, and legal action.
The ultimate goal of this capability is to provide you with peace of mind and the assurance of a complete, proactive security program. We transform the anxiety and uncertainty of managing unseen threats into a feeling of control and quiet confidence. Instead of waiting for a security incident or a costly audit to discover your vulnerabilities, you are empowered to act.
This solution simplifies your compliance burden by providing a clear, prioritized action plan. It allows you to confidently demonstrate to regulators and leadership that you are not just checking boxes, but are actively defending your organization against the real-world threats that lead to breaches. You can be the hero who prevents the disaster, not the victim who has to manage its fallout.
The ThreatNG External HIPAA Assessment capability directly aligns with and helps you meet several core HIPAA Security Rule requirements :
- Risk Analysis (164.308(a)(1)(ii)(A)): It identifies and evaluates external vulnerabilities and exposures that must be included in your risk assessment.
- Risk Management (164.308(a)(1)(ii)(B)): It provides the insights you need to prioritize and implement controls to mitigate external risks.
- Access Control (164.312(a)(1)): It finds exposed login pages, APIs, and leaked credentials that could be used to bypass your access controls.
- Security Incident Procedures (164.308(a)(6)(ii)): It provides crucial intelligence that can support your incident response and reporting procedures by identifying potential attack vectors and exposures.