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HIPAA compliance report

The HIPAA compliance report helps your organization to comply with the United States' Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standards.

Healthcare organizations are among those who go to great lengths to secure their systems and websites against malicious attackers. If they fail to do so, they face the loss of credibility and reputation and may incur heavy penalties with the HIPAA.

  • With the HIPAA compliance report, you can easily identify roadblocks that prevent your organization from being compliant.
  • Both Invicti editions allow you to generate a HIPAA Report. To view technical details, you need to click the relevant vulnerability.
  • The report lists vulnerabilities that violate the HIPAA standards and provides technical details of each vulnerability. It helps you to fix those vulnerabilities and issues.
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There can be other vulnerabilities and security issues found in your web applications but not listed in the HIPAA compliance report. The report doesn't replace an official one and can't be used as an HIPAA Compliance report.


HIPAA compliance report overview.

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Click to view a sample HIPAA compliance report.

For more information, refer to the Overview of reports, Report templates, and Built-in reports documents.

HIPAA compliance report sections​

There are four sections in the HIPAA compliance report.

Scan metadata​

This section provides details on the following items:

  • Scan target: the target URL or web application being scanned.
  • Scan time: when the scan was initiated.
  • Scan duration: how long the scan took to complete.
  • Description: additional notes or description of the scan.
  • Total requests: number of HTTP requests made during the scan.
  • Average speed: the average scanning speed.
  • Tags: labels applied to the scan for organization.
  • Risk level: the overall risk assessment of the target.

Vulnerabilities​

This provides a numerical and graphical overview of:

  • Numbers: the numbers of issues detected at various vulnerability severity levels.
  • Identified vulnerabilities: the total number of detected vulnerabilities.
  • Confirmed vulnerabilities: the total number of vulnerabilities that Invicti verified by taking extra steps such as extracting some data from the target.

For more information, refer to the Vulnerability severity levels document.

Vulnerability names and details​

This section describes all identified issues and vulnerabilities, along with their Impact and Proof of Exploit. It also explains what Actions to Take and a Remedy for each one, including External References for more information.

Vulnerability names and details section.

The following list describes the headings in the Vulnerability Names and Details section:

  • Name: this is the name of the identified issue.
  • Tag: this is the label to group, organize, and filter issues in the target web application.
  • Proof of exploit: this is a piece of evidence to prove that vulnerability exists and information that's extracted from the target using the vulnerability. For more information, refer to the Benefits of Proof-Based Scanning™ Technology document.
  • Vulnerability details: this displays further details about the vulnerability.
  • Certainty value: this indicates how much Invicti is sure about the identified issue.
  • Impact: this shows the effect of the issue or vulnerability on the Target URL.
  • Required skills for successful exploitation: this gives details on how malicious hackers could exploit this issue.
  • Actions to take: these are the immediate steps you can take to decrease the impact or prevent exploitation.
Actions to take section in the vulnerability details.
  • Remedy: this offers further steps to resolve the identified issue.
  • External references: this provides links to other websites where you can find more information.
  • Classification: HIPAA - this set of requirements is determined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of the United States.
  • Proof of concept notes: these notes demonstrate in principle how a system may be compromised.
Proof of Concept notes.
  • Remedy references: this provides further information on the solution of identified issues.
  • Request: this is the whole HTTP request that Invicti sent to detect the issue.
  • Response: this is the reply from the system against the payload.
  • HTTP request: this is the whole HTTP request that Invicti sent to detect the issue.
  • HTTP response: this is the reply from the system against the payload.

Show/hide scan details​

This section provides some profile and policy settings that Invicti uses to adjust its scanning to reach more coverage. For example, it lists all enabled security checks.

It provides information on your preference in choosing this scan so that developers have more details on how the scan was run.

Scan details section showing enabled security checks.

For more information, refer to the Security Checks document.

Generate a HIPAA compliance report in Invicti Enterprise​

  1. Select Scans > Recent Scans from the left-side menu.
  2. Next to the relevant scan, choose Report.
Export button on the Scan summary page in Invicti Enterprise.
  1. From the Report drop-down, choose HIPAA Compliance.
HIPAA Compliance option in drop-down.
  1. From the Format drop-down, choose an option.
  2. If required, choose one of the following to configure your report:
    • Exclude addressed issues excludes those issues on which you've already taken action. (All Information level findings are marked as Accepted Risk automatically by default. To change this behavior, see Do not mark Information issues as accepted risks in the General Settings document).
    • Exclude history of issues excludes the issue history from the report. If unselected, only the last 10 history items appear in the report. For more information, refer to the Viewing Issues in Invicti Enterprise document.
    • Export confirmed includes only those issues that are confirmed.
    • Export unconfirmed includes only those issues that are unconfirmed.
  3. Choose Export.

You can view the report in the saved location.

Generate a HIPAA compliance report in Invicti Standard​

  1. From the ribbon, choose the File tab. Local Scans are displayed. Double-click the relevant scan to display its results.
  2. From the Reporting tab, choose the HIPAA Compliance Report.
Reporting tab with HIPAA Compliance Report option
  1. From the Save Report As dialog, choose a save location, then Save.
Save Report As dialog in Invicti Standard.
  1. The Export Report dialog is also displayed at this point, with the Path field already populated from the previous dialog.
  2. From this dialog, you can decide on:
    • Policy: choose the default report policy or customized report policy. For more information, refer to the Custom report policies document.
    • Format: choose HTML and/or PDF format.
    • Vulnerability options (choose one or all):
      • Export confirmed: when selected, the report includes confirmed vulnerabilities.
      • Export unconfirmed: when selected, the report also includes unconfirmed vulnerabilities.
      • Export all variations: variations mean that if Invicti identified some passive or Information level issues in more than one page, it doesn't show all these variations. However, users can change this by enabling or disabling this option.
    • Header and Footer: enter relevant information that appears in the header and footer section of the report.
    • Open generated report: when selected, your reports are generated when you choose Save.
  3. Choose Save.

You can view the report in the saved location.

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