Security testing for HealthTech and digital health
Continuous testing and cloud posture for teams handling protected health information — mapped to the HIPAA Security Rule, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.
RedStrike is a continuous security testing and cloud posture platform for digital health teams. It maps findings to the HIPAA Security Rule (45 CFR Part 164, Subpart C), SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A, and GDPR, and grades cloud accounts continuously. One boundary worth knowing before you evaluate: native HIPAA cloud-resource checks run on AWS only. Azure subscriptions and GCP projects are graded against CIS Foundations benchmarks instead, which covers the underlying configuration controls but is not a HIPAA-labelled ruleset.
The problem
Why PHI raises the cost of getting this wrong
Health data carries breach-notification duties, contractual obligations to every covered entity you serve, and a buyer who audits you before signing.
One record is worth more, and one breach costs more
A protected health record cannot be reissued the way a card number can. Breach notification is statutory, the disclosure is public, and the enterprise health systems you sell to will read about it.
Multi-tenant patient data is an authorization problem
Most digital health products separate patients, providers, and organisations inside one application. The flaw that exposes a cohort of records is almost never injection — it is one identifier that was never checked against the session.
Technical safeguards must be demonstrated, not asserted
The HIPAA Security Rule's technical safeguards — access control, audit controls, integrity, transmission security — are things you have to show working. A signed policy is not evidence that encryption is actually enforced.
Every enterprise deal comes with a security review
Selling into a health system means a questionnaire, a SOC 2 report, and often a request for recent penetration testing evidence. Producing that from scratch per deal is a tax on your sales cycle.
How RedStrike helps
Testing built around protected data and who can reach it
Each item below corresponds to a component of the scan engine or a shipped export format.
Tenant and record isolation testing
Broken object-level authorization checks exercise whether one authenticated patient, provider, or organisation can read or modify another's records — run with real sessions across multiple roles.
Encryption and storage posture
Unencrypted volumes, public storage, weak transport configuration, and missing key rotation are checked continuously across your cloud accounts and flagged against the relevant controls.
Audit-control verification
Cloud audit logging — CloudTrail, Azure activity logs, GCP audit logs — is verified as enabled, because the technical safeguard that matters after an incident is the one that was already switched on.
HIPAA-mapped findings
Application, API, and network findings carry HIPAA Security Rule control ids, and AWS resources are audited against the native HIPAA benchmark. Both are stated separately in the table below.
Retest to closure
A remediated finding is re-tested and its closure recorded, so your evidence shows the full lifecycle rather than a snapshot of open issues.
One evidence trail, several frameworks
The same scan produces HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR mappings, so a second framework does not mean a second programme.
Compliance coverage
Which frameworks this maps to — and exactly how far the mapping goes
Read the cloud column carefully. HIPAA, SOC 2, and GDPR have native cloud-resource checks on AWS only; Azure and GCP are graded against CIS Foundations benchmarks. We state this rather than describing the platform as multi-cloud HIPAA-ready.
| Framework | Edition mapped | Cloud coverage |
|---|---|---|
| HIPAA Security RuleUS HHS | security-rule | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| SOC 2AICPA | 2017 | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| ISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC | 2022 | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| GDPREuropean Union | 2016/679 | Native cloud-resource checks on AWS. Azure and GCP are graded against CIS benchmarks instead. |
| OWASP Top 10OWASP Foundation | 2025 | Mapped on findings from application, API, and network testing. No native cloud-resource checks — pair with CIS benchmark grading for cloud evidence. |
| OWASP API Security Top 10OWASP Foundation | 2023 | Mapped on findings from application, API, and network testing. No native cloud-resource checks — pair with CIS benchmark grading for cloud evidence. |
Every cloud account is graded against CIS Foundations benchmarks on AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes clusters against the CIS Kubernetes benchmark, regardless of which frameworks above apply to you. Evidence can be exported as a report or pushed into Vanta or Drata.
How it works
From connected to evidence in four steps
Define scope
Add the domains, APIs, and cloud accounts in scope, with rules of engagement recorded before any test runs.
Test continuously
Application, API, network, container, and cloud checks run on a schedule instead of once a year, so drift is caught within a scan cycle.
Verify & de-duplicate
Findings from multiple tools are correlated into one issue, evidence is collected, and severity is scored so the list you read is the list that matters.
Export evidence
Results are mapped to framework controls and exported as a report, or pushed into Vanta or Drata.
Outcomes
What changes once this is running
- Show HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards working continuously, not asserted in a policy document.
- Find the record-isolation flaws that expose a cohort of patients before someone else does.
- Answer enterprise health-system security reviews from a standing evidence pack instead of a scramble.
- Cover HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR from one scan programme.
- Know exactly where cloud coverage is AWS-native and where it is CIS-based, before you sign.
Related
Go deeper on the parts that matter to you
Continuous Pentesting
Always-on, verified offensive testing across apps, APIs, and network — not a once-a-year snapshot.
Learn more →Cloud Security (CSPM)
CIS-benchmarked posture across AWS, Azure, and GCP, with drift caught inside a scan cycle.
Learn more →Compliance
How findings become control-mapped audit evidence, and which editions are pinned to your engagement.
Learn more →FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about RedStrike for HealthTech.
Does RedStrike make my product HIPAA compliant?
No tool can. HIPAA compliance covers administrative, physical, and technical safeguards, plus business associate agreements and organisational policy. RedStrike addresses the technical safeguards you can test and evidence: access control, audit controls, integrity, and transmission security. Findings carry HIPAA Security Rule control ids, and AWS resources are audited against the native HIPAA benchmark.
Are HIPAA cloud checks available on Azure and GCP?
No. Native HIPAA cloud-resource checks run on AWS only. Azure subscriptions and GCP projects are graded against CIS Foundations benchmarks, which cover the underlying configuration controls — encryption, access, network exposure, logging — but are not a HIPAA-labelled ruleset. Application-side HIPAA mapping applies to findings from any environment.
Will RedStrike sign a business associate agreement?
That is a contractual question rather than a product one, and it depends on whether your deployment puts protected health information in scope. Ask us directly on the contact page — we would rather answer it before an evaluation than during one.
Does testing touch real patient data?
Scanning is performed against the targets and scope you define, with rules of engagement recorded before any test runs. Most teams point RedStrike at staging environments containing synthetic data for intrusive test profiles, and use lighter profiles against production. Free-plan targets additionally require DNS TXT proof of domain ownership before a scan will run.
How does this help with enterprise health-system security reviews?
Reviews typically ask for evidence of recent penetration testing, a vulnerability management process, and control coverage. RedStrike produces control-mapped reports on a continuous schedule in PDF, HTML, JSON, SARIF, OpenVEX, and OSCAL, so the answer is an export rather than a project.
Can we cover HIPAA and SOC 2 at the same time?
Yes. One scan produces mappings for every framework you select, so HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR share a single evidence trail rather than requiring separate programmes.
Evidence your technical safeguards, continuously
HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR mapping from one continuous testing programme.