For HIPAA programs

HIPAA compliance, made boring.

Continuous monitoring for the web surfaces that touch ePHI. Audit-ready exports, control mapping to the Security Rule, and production-safe scans you can point at live patient portals.

HIPAA Security Rule

What the rule actually asks of your web tier.

Technical Safeguards

Controls protecting ePHI

Continuous checks for access control, transmission encryption (TLS), and audit logging surfaces on the web tier that handles electronic protected health information.
Patient Portals

Portal & web app security

Targeted scans for patient portals and healthcare web apps. Headers, cookies, auth surfaces, and common web hygiene get checked against the Security Rule expectations.
Breach Notification

Early signal on incidents

Real-time detection of misconfigurations and exposures that could trigger Breach Notification Rule obligations, so you find them before regulators or patients do.
How Barrion helps

How Barrion supports HIPAA compliance.

Security Rule

Mapped to the Security Rule

Findings carry mappings to the relevant HIPAA Security Rule control families, so audit prep stops being a manual translation exercise.
Healthcare web

Built for healthcare surfaces

Production-safe DAST that you can point at patient portals and ePHI-adjacent web apps. Default scans don't submit forms or touch state-changing routes.
Audit exports

Audit-ready reports

One-click PDF and CSV exports your auditor will actually accept. Scan history sticks around as evidence of continuous monitoring.
Always-on evidence

Continuous, not one-off

Weekly or daily cadence depending on plan. You get a trail of scans across time, not a single point-in-time report that's stale the day after you signed it.
How it runs

Evidence, on a cadence auditors recognise.

HIPAA audits aren't looking for a single hero report. They want to see that controls are operating over time, that someone is watching the web surfaces handling ePHI, and that issues get caught and closed. Barrion is built around that cadence.

Every scan produces a dated PDF and CSV export, mapped to the relevant Security Rule control families. Findings carry remediation steps your engineers can act on without translation, and the scan history sticks around as continuous evidence you can hand to an auditor or to a customer running a vendor review.

  • ✓Production-safe DAST you can point at live patient portals
  • ✓Findings mapped to HIPAA Security Rule control families
  • ✓Weekly or daily scans, depending on plan, with full history
  • ✓PDF and CSV exports auditors and customer security teams accept
  • ✓Plain-language remediation steps for each finding
Evidence example

A Security Rule mapping, from a single scan.

A typical Barrion HIPAA evidence export, ready to attach to your audit package:

{
  "portal_access_control": "164.312(a)(1)",
  "audit_logging_surface": "164.312(b)",
  "ephi_integrity_headers": "164.312(c)(1)",
  "session_authentication": "164.312(d)",
  "tls_transmission_security": "164.312(e)(1)",
  "encryption_in_transit": "164.312(e)(2)(ii)"
}
FAQ

HIPAA on Barrion, answered.

Does Barrion cover the full HIPAA Security Rule?
Barrion covers the technical safeguards that live on your web tier: TLS and transport security, security headers, cookie flags, CORS, DNS, email auth, and DAST findings on patient portals and ePHI-handling web apps. It does not replace your administrative and physical safeguards, BAAs, or workforce training. Most healthcare teams use Barrion as the continuous evidence layer for §164.312 controls and pair it with a GRC tool for the rest.
Will the reports hold up in a HIPAA audit?
Yes. Exports include the scan timestamp, scope, finding severity, remediation status, and the relevant Security Rule control mapping. Auditors are looking for evidence that controls are operating continuously, and a date-stamped trail of scans is exactly that. We've shipped the same exports into OCR-style reviews and customer security questionnaires without rework.
How often does monitoring actually run?
Cadence depends on plan. Essential runs weekly, Business runs daily, and you can trigger ad-hoc rescans whenever you ship a meaningful change. Each scan is treated as fresh evidence with its own export, so you can show an auditor the progression rather than a single snapshot.
Is it safe to run this against production patient portals?
Yes. Default scans are read-only: they don't submit forms, don't touch state-changing routes, and don't attempt to authenticate as a patient. That's specifically so healthcare teams can monitor live ePHI-handling surfaces without risking a real breach during the assessment. Anything intrusive is opt-in and gated behind explicit configuration.
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Compliance

Compliance checker

Run a HIPAA-aware scan against your patient portal and see which Security Rule controls hold up.
Transport

TLS test

Verify transmission security on every ePHI-handling endpoint against 164.312(e)(1) expectations.
Email

Email security test

Check SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on healthcare domains so patient-facing email can't be spoofed.

Start the evidence trail.

Run a free scan against your healthcare web app and see the HIPAA-mapped findings before you commit to anything.

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