Continuous PHI monitoring, automated BAA management, and 2026 NPRM gap analysis — so your engineering team ships features instead of chasing audit evidence.
The 2026 HIPAA Security Rule NPRM introduces mandatory technical controls — MFA, encryption at rest, vulnerability scanning, and 72-hour breach notification. Get your free gap assessment →
Iron Fort is purpose-built for organizations where protected health information is core to the product — not an afterthought.
Pre-revenue to Series B companies building patient-facing apps, remote monitoring tools, or telehealth platforms. Need HIPAA compliance fast to close your first enterprise health system deal.
Series B+ platforms with EHR integrations, clinical workflows, or population health tools. Compliance is table stakes for hospital procurement — Iron Fort keeps you permanently audit-ready.
Organizations handling clinical trial data, genomic information, or patient cohort data under covered entity arrangements. Complex BAA networks managed automatically.
FDA-regulated software-as-a-medical-device companies that sit at the intersection of HIPAA and FDA 21 CFR Part 11. One platform handles both evidence streams.
Tech vendors, billing services, analytics firms, and cloud providers that store, process, or transmit PHI on behalf of covered entities. BAA management and downstream subcontractor tracking included.
Hospital and health system IT teams managing vendor risk, security incident response, and annual HIPAA risk analysis requirements under OCR guidance.
Iron Fort maps directly to the HIPAA Security Rule's Administrative, Physical, and Technical safeguard categories.
Automated annual risk analysis that meets OCR's required addressable implementation specification — updated in real time as your infrastructure changes, not just once a year.
Track every Business Associate Agreement — creation, signing, renewal, and termination. Automatic alerts before expiration. Subcontractor BAA chain mapping included.
Side-by-side mapping of your current controls against the proposed 2026 Security Rule changes — MFA requirements, encryption mandates, vulnerability scanning timelines, and 72-hour breach window.
Guided incident response that automatically determines breach notification obligations, drafts required notices, and tracks the 60-day OCR reporting clock (72-hour window under NPRM).
220+ HIPAA-specific policy templates. AI-powered gap detection that reads your existing policies and flags missing required elements — no manual cross-referencing needed.
Assign, track, and document HIPAA workforce training completion. Auto-generated compliance reports satisfy the Workforce Training required implementation specification.
Native connectors to Epic, Cerner, AWS, Azure, GCP, and major cloud storage providers. Continuous configuration monitoring catches security drift before OCR does.
Every control test, policy approval, risk decision, and workforce record stored with tamper-evident timestamps. OCR audit response packages generated in minutes.
A structured onboarding process designed for lean health tech teams — no dedicated compliance staff required.
Connect your cloud infrastructure and data systems. Iron Fort automatically inventories PHI data flows and maps your current control posture.
AI-driven mapping against all 75 HIPAA Security Rule implementation specifications — plus 2026 NPRM requirements — surfaces your exact gaps with remediation priority scores.
Guided remediation tasks assigned to the right team members. Policies drafted and approved in-platform. BAAs executed and tracked centrally.
Real-time alerts on configuration drift, new PHI data paths, workforce training gaps, and BAA expirations. Your compliance posture, always current.
"We closed our first health system contract in 8 weeks. The CISO wanted our HIPAA audit package — Iron Fort generated it in about 20 minutes. Previously that would have been a week of CTO time."
"Our engineering team used to lose 2 days per month on compliance busywork. Now it's 30 minutes of Iron Fort reviews. The BAA tracker alone eliminated three spreadsheets."
"The 2026 NPRM gap analysis showed us exactly what we needed to fix before the rule takes effect. We're already compliant with the new MFA and encryption requirements — competitors are still figuring it out."
No — HIPAA requires a designated Privacy Officer (a human). Iron Fort is the platform your Privacy Officer uses to manage the program efficiently. We automate evidence collection, policy management, BAA tracking, and risk analysis — tasks that otherwise consume dozens of hours monthly. Many of our customers designate a co-founder or VP Eng as Privacy Officer and use Iron Fort to make that role manageable alongside a full-time product job.
Yes — Iron Fort is built on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure (AWS GovCloud) and we sign a Business Associate Agreement with every customer. However, Iron Fort is a compliance management platform, not an application database. You do not store PHI in Iron Fort — we analyze your infrastructure, policies, and controls. Your PHI stays in your systems.
The 2026 NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) introduced significant changes including mandatory MFA, encryption-at-rest requirements, 72-hour breach notification (down from 60 days), annual technology asset inventories, and vulnerability scanning mandates. Iron Fort includes a dedicated NPRM gap analysis module that maps your current controls to proposed requirements and generates a prioritized remediation roadmap — so you're ready before the rule takes effect.
Most customers reach initial audit readiness — meaning they could produce an OCR audit response package — within 14 days. Full program maturity (all policies approved, BAAs executed, training complete, continuous monitoring active) typically takes 30–60 days depending on organizational complexity and the maturity of your existing security controls.
Yes. Iron Fort's Evidence Vault maintains a tamper-evident, timestamped record of every control test, policy approval, training completion, and risk decision. When an OCR desk audit or investigation request arrives, you can generate a compliant response package — organized by the OCR audit protocol categories — in under an hour instead of weeks of manual document collection.
Consultants and Iron Fort are complementary. Consultants provide expertise and interpretation; Iron Fort provides the continuous, automated infrastructure that makes their recommendations stick. Many of our partner consultants (including SocBridge) use Iron Fort as their delivery platform — it eliminates the manual evidence collection work that consumes most of an engagement fee.
30-minute session with a compliance engineer. We'll map your current posture against all 75 HIPAA Security Rule specs and the 2026 NPRM changes — at no cost.