REPORT
AI & Pentesting Pulse 2026: The 6 things elite security teams do differently to close the risk gap
REPORT
AI & Pentesting Pulse 2026: The 6 things elite security teams do differently to close the risk gap

EHR integrations, patient portals, connected devices. Annual testing can't keep up.

HIPAA now mandates annual pentesting. But EHR integrations, patient portals, and connected devices are expanding your attack surface faster than a once-a-year test can cover. Learn how Cobalt supports comprehensive healthcare cybersecurity solutions.


HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001 Certified

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PROVEN RESULTS

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GigaOm Radar Report for PTaaS

#1

G2 Penetration Testing Tools

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to Pentest launch

500+

Expert pentesters

Your healthcare organization may have more security risk than your pentest program is covering

HIPAA 2025 makes annual pentesting a legal requirement
HHS OCR updated the Security Rule in 2025. Compliance-only testing won't hold up when OCR audits for evidence of continuous control; not just annual attestation.
Cobalt Advantage
HIPAA-informed assessment frameworks with audit-ready reports mapped to Security Rule requirements. Your compliance team gets findings formatted for OCR review. No reformatting, no scramble.
EHRs, patient portals, and connected devices are a growing attack surface
Healthcare breach costs are the highest of any industry: 13 years running. Cloud-native EHRs, patient-facing APIs, and connected devices have expanded the surface faster than automated tools can cover.
Cobalt Advantage
Cobalt Core pentesters specializing in EHR architectures, patient-facing APIs, connected devices, plus continuous Attack Surface Monitoring between point-in-time tests.
Patient-facing features can't wait 6 weeks for a pentest to start
Traditional vendors take six to eight weeks from scoping to first finding. Deployments go live before testing is complete leaving PHI exposed in production.
Cobalt Advantage
24-hour pentest launch. Real-time findings as discovered. Direct access to the same pentester throughout. Retesting within seven days of a fix.

AI in Healthcare

71% of healthcare leaders cite genAI as their top security risk, yet AI/LLM assets carry high-risk vulnerabilities at 2.7x the rate of traditional software, with only a 38% resolution rate. Most programs aren't built to close that gap. Cobalt tests clinical AI and patient-facing LLM features with the same rigor as your core infrastructure.
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What you get

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HIPAA-informed framework
Findings mapped to the Security Rule. Audit-ready from day one.
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EHR + API + device depth
Testing built for the infrastructure your patients' care runs on.
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Launch in 24 hours
Active testing starts the next day. No 6-week wait time.
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AI/LLM testing
OWASP Top 10 LLM coverage for clinical AI and patient-facing features.
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Attack Surface Monitoring
Continuous coverage between pentests. No gaps, no blind spots.
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Direct tester access
Ask questions, dispute findings, request clarification. Same expert, start to finish.

Healthcare organizations trust Cobalt to protect what matters most

Healthcare ranks in the top five industries for remediation performance despite the complexity of healthcare IT environments.
The 2026 Cobalt State of Pentesting Report found healthcare achieves an 86% high-risk resolution rate and a 41-day mean time to resolution. This is in the top five across every metric Cobalt tracks. The organizations leading the pack share one thing: they treat pentesting as a continuous program, not a compliance event.
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RESOURCES

The latest thinking in healthcare offensive security

One-Pager
HIPAA Compliance

What the 2025 HIPAA Security Rule update requires and how the Cobalt assessment framework satisfies it.

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Report
AI and Pentesting Pulse Report 2026

Five years of pentest data on AI and LLM applications and what separates organizations closing that gap from those falling further behind.

White Paper
Chaining Vulnerabilities for a Cloud Compromise

How a single low-severity finding in a healthcare portal escalated through 21 steps to full Global Admin access and why automated scanning tools are unable to see this kind of chain.

Better security for your patients. Starts with a quick conversation.

Healthcare organizations using Cobalt launch their first pentest within 24 hours and receive HIPAA-mapped findings as discovered. No PDF three weeks later.
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