Find the vulnerabilities that put patient data at risk
11 automated scanners check your patient portals, web applications, and network infrastructure for CVEs, weak encryption, exposed files, and misconfigurations. Generate HIPAA compliance evidence without a security team.
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HIPAA Compliance Evidence
SSL/TLS audits, security header checks, and vulnerability scans map directly to HIPAA technical safeguards. Export scan results as audit-ready evidence for your compliance officer.
Patient Portal Scanning
Nuclei CVE scans, sensitive file detection, and security header analysis on your patient-facing portals. Find exposed login pages, weak TLS, and known vulnerabilities before attackers do.
Network and Device Scanning
Nmap port scanning identifies open services across your network, including connected medical devices. Detect unnecessary exposed ports and outdated services that expand your attack surface.
PHI Exposure Detection
Sensitive file scanning finds exposed configuration files, backup archives, and debug endpoints that could leak protected health information. Cloud bucket checks catch misconfigured S3, Azure, and GCP storage.
DNS and Subdomain Security
DNS security checks and subdomain takeover detection across your healthcare web properties. Catch dangling DNS records from decommissioned systems before they become entry points.
AI-Prioritized Remediation
AI ranks findings by severity and exploitability so your IT team fixes what matters most. Automated issue tracking with step-by-step remediation guidance -- no security expertise required.
Healthcare Security in Four Steps
Add Your Assets
Enter patient portal domains, application servers, and network IPs. Two-minute setup.
Scan Everything
11 scanners run CVE detection, port scanning, SSL audits, and sensitive file checks automatically.
Remediate with AI
AI prioritizes findings and provides remediation steps your team can follow without security expertise.
Export Evidence
Generate audit-ready reports that map scan results to HIPAA technical safeguard requirements.
The Healthcare External Attack Surface: Patient Portals, Legacy Systems, and Third-Party Sprawl
Healthcare organizations expose an unusually wide and long-lived external footprint. A typical clinic, practice group, or regional system runs an internet-facing patient portal (often a hosted MyChart, Athenahealth, or NextGen instance), a telehealth front end, online scheduling and bill-pay pages, a provider/employee remote-access gateway, and a marketing site — frequently across dozens of subdomains accumulated over years of vendor changes, acquisitions, and short-lived microsites. Each of these is a public door to systems that touch protected health information (PHI), and most were stood up by IT generalists or outside vendors rather than a dedicated security team.
The recurring exposure patterns are concrete and well-documented in the wild: web servers and portals running known-vulnerable software (the FHIR/HL7 interface engines, PACS image servers, and VPN appliances behind healthcare are repeat CVE offenders), weak or expiring TLS on portals that handle logins and PHI, and exposed sensitive paths — backup archives, .env files, debug endpoints, and database dumps left on staging hosts. DNS hygiene is a persistent weak spot too: dangling CNAMEs from decommissioned EHR modules and patient-survey vendors invite subdomain takeover, and missing SPF/DKIM/DMARC on domains that send appointment and lab-result emails make providers easy to impersonate in phishing aimed at patients and staff.
Two factors make the sector different. First, third-party sprawl: a single provider may share PHI with dozens of business associates (billing, transcription, scheduling, analytics, cloud storage), and a misconfigured S3/Azure/GCS bucket on any of them — or a portal pointed at a deprovisioned SaaS — becomes the breach. Second, the data is durable and high-value: a medical record can't be reissued like a credit card, which is exactly why healthcare is among the most-targeted sectors for ransomware and extortion. External scanning is the right tool for the internet-facing slice of this — exposed services, certs, DNS, files, and lookalike domains — but it is not a substitute for internal segmentation, an internal vulnerability program, or device-level firmware security on the medical equipment itself.
Compliance this supports
How continuous external scanning maps to the frameworks teams in this sector report against.
The proposed 2026 update (final rule targeted ~May 2026) would mandate an asset inventory, a network map, and vulnerability scanning at least every six months — continuous external scanning produces exactly the technical-safeguard evidence those provisions require.
A 40-clinician medical group acquires a smaller practice and migrates its old patient-survey tool to a new vendor. The DNS team retires the survey app but leaves the CNAME `survey.examplecare.com` pointing at the deprovisioned SaaS host. Three weeks later an attacker re-registers that host on the same provider, takes over the subdomain, and stands up a convincing clone of the group's patient login page. Because the parent domain has no DMARC enforcement, the attacker sends \"your lab results are ready — verify your identity\" emails that pass casual inspection, and patients enter portal credentials into the lookalike. The first the group hears of it is a patient complaint. FortWatch's takeover scanner would have flagged the dangling CNAME within a day of the migration, the DNS scanner would have surfaced the missing DMARC policy, and the brand monitor would have caught the lookalike domain — three low-effort fixes that, made in time, close the path before any credential is phished.
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