Regional Healthcare Network Closes Critical Gaps Ahead of a HIPAA Audit
Client: A regional multi-site healthcare provider (name withheld under NDA)
3 Critical
Vulnerabilities found and remediated pre-audit
6 Weeks
From engagement start to audit-ready
0
Findings carried into the formal audit
The challenge
With a HIPAA compliance audit scheduled, this healthcare network needed an independent assessment of both its technical security posture and its administrative safeguards, ideally with enough runway to fix whatever was found.
The approach
Eiferone ran a scoped external and internal penetration test across the provider's patient portal, internal clinical systems, and network segmentation, alongside a HIPAA Security Rule gap assessment covering access controls, audit logging, and business associate agreements.
What we found
Testing surfaced three critical findings: an authentication bypass on a legacy patient-facing application, overly broad database access from a shared service account, and insufficient audit logging on systems handling protected health information. Each carried real audit and breach risk if left unaddressed.
The outcome
All critical and high findings were remediated within the six-week engagement window, well ahead of the scheduled audit. The formal HIPAA audit that followed identified no findings that hadn't already been addressed.