Healthcare
Security programs for health-tech companies that sell to payers and providers
If your software touches PHI, you're a business associate, and your customers will hold you to it. KN Cyber builds security programs that satisfy HIPAA, pass SOC 2, stand up to health-plan and health-system vendor reviews, and grow into HITRUST when your customers ask for it. Healthcare is one of the five industries KN Cyber works with.
What we deliver
- HIPAA Security Rule risk analysis and risk management plan
- Administrative, physical, and technical safeguards mapped to how your product actually runs
- SOC 2 scoped alongside HIPAA, so evidence is reused. SOC 2 readiness
- HITRUST readiness: confirming which assessment your customers require, mapping it to your existing controls, closing gaps, and preparing for the assessor
- Business Associate Agreement and subprocessor risk management
- Payer and health-system security questionnaires. Health plan vendor security reviews and customer and vendor security reviews
- AI security assessments and AI governance for clinical and operational AI features. AI and cloud security
Health plan vendor security reviews
Health plans and health systems assess vendors before they buy. Published supplier terms commonly ask for an independent audit report (usually SOC 2 Type II, sometimes HITRUST), a recognized framework, penetration testing evidence, encryption of PHI, breach notification commitments, and oversight of your own vendors. We triage the review, answer it accurately with evidence, plan any gaps, and join the follow-up call. Customer and vendor security reviews
Sources: publicly posted supplier security requirements of several health plans: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan supplier security requirements; Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts vendor guidelines; Centene suppliers. Names describe the type of review only. KN Cyber is not affiliated with or endorsed by these organizations, and they are not named as clients.
What's changing in healthcare security
HIPAA Security Rule: HHS proposed major changes in January 2025, including required MFA, encryption, asset inventories, and annual penetration testing. Final action is currently expected around July 2027, and the existing rule remains fully enforced. (Sources: JD Supra; Fierce Healthcare)
AI: buyers are starting to ask for AI governance evidence, and HITRUST now offers an AI Security Assessment (source: HITRUST). We prepare clients for it.
Vendor risk: health plans increasingly require SOC 2 Type II or HITRUST from vendors, plus pentest evidence (sources: published health-plan supplier terms, listed above).
We keep clients on the current rule while preparing for what's proposed, without fear-driven overbuilding.
Who we work with
- Digital-health, care-management, and price-transparency platforms that sell to health plans
- Health-tech SaaS selling to hospitals and health systems
- Digital therapeutics and remote-monitoring companies serving payers and employers
Experience
Our practitioners have led security at health-tech companies that served national health plans, a large national insurer, and a pediatric health system, and took a payer-facing health-tech company from no formal program to SOC 2 Type 2. Case studies
Healthcare security FAQs
Does SOC 2 make us HIPAA compliant?
Do you offer HITRUST readiness?
When should we pursue HITRUST?
Is the new HIPAA Security Rule in effect?
Related case studies
A payer-facing health-tech company: from no formal security program to SOC 2 Type 2
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