India
Healthtech Company
A comprehensive penetration testing engagement across three public-facing websites and network infrastructure that uncovered 29 vulnerabilities, strengthening critical healthcare assets while helping safeguard sensitive patient and healthcare data against real-world cyber threats.
India
Healthtech Company
53 Employees
AI-Powered Healthcare
3 Websites + Network
Infrastructure Assessed
2 High Severity
Vulnerabilities Identified
When your platform stores highly sensitive healthcare and patient information, you need more than automated security scans. The client required a penetration testing partner capable of performing deep security assessments while delivering practical remediation support.
Qualysec's Human-led AI Powered approach performs deeper penetration testing, identifying vulnerabilities that automated tools often overlook through expert-driven assessment.
Qualysec's proven experience in securing complex digital ecosystems worldwide made it a trusted partner for protecting critical healthcare infrastructure.
Cost-effective pricing together with flexible engagement models enabled the client to obtain enterprise-grade penetration testing without exceeding their security budget.
From assessment and reporting to remediation guidance and retesting, Qualysec delivered complete security support through one experienced team.
A trusted recommendation from an existing client who had previously worked with Qualysec and achieved successful security outcomes further strengthened their confidence in selecting Qualysec as their cybersecurity partner.
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The assessment uncovered a mix of critical, high, and medium-risk issues that were prioritized and remediated to protect the platform and its users.
An attacker can inject malicious scripts through URLs or input fields that execute in the victim's browser the moment they click a crafted link. In a healthcare platform where users handle sensitive data, this opens the door to session hijacking and credential theft.
Potential impact: Session hijacking and credential compromise.
One or more public-facing websites were running without HTTPS, leaving communication between users and servers unencrypted. For a platform handling health records, this creates a critical exposure where sensitive information can be intercepted.
Potential impact: Exposure of sensitive healthcare data.
Unsanitized input fields allowed attackers to manipulate backend database queries directly, putting patient records and internal healthcare data at risk of unauthorized access, modification, or deletion.
Potential impact: Patient data exposure and database compromise.
Users could access resources beyond their assigned permission level, allowing unauthorized access to records belonging to entirely different patients.
Potential impact: Unauthorized patient record access.
The absence of standard HTTP security headers exposed browsers to clickjacking, MIME sniffing, and malicious script injection attacks.
Potential impact: Browser-based security compromise.
If these vulnerabilities had remained undiscovered, attackers could have exploited multiple weaknesses, leading to large-scale data breaches, patient data exposure, mass account compromise, disruption of healthcare services, and complete loss of client trust.
Qualysec didn't simply deliver a vulnerability report. Every one of the 29 identified vulnerabilities was documented, categorized, and accompanied by a structured remediation roadmap. The security team worked closely with the client's developers to ensure every issue was effectively resolved.
Every critical finding was thoroughly investigated to identify its underlying cause, ensuring vulnerabilities were addressed at their source rather than through temporary fixes.
Qualysec collaborated directly with the client's development team, providing technical guidance and a practical roadmap to remediate vulnerabilities while preventing similar security issues in the future.
A three-phase retesting process verified that every identified vulnerability had been successfully mitigated while ensuring no additional security issues were introduced during remediation.
3-Phase
Retesting Completed
Development Team Enabled
Clear remediation guidance delivered.
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Open Critical Issues
Infrastructure Secured
Healthcare
Healthcare Data
Successfully Protected
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