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Offensive Security for healthcare.
Hospitals, trusts, independent providers and health tech suppliers run services that can’t stop. The Swarm continuously tests your organisation the way a real attacker would, across digital, social and physical, so you know what holds and can prove it to your board, DSPT assessors and regulators.
THE THREAT.
What would an attacker take from you first?
You already invest in audits, assessments, and annual tests. They show what was checked on the day it was checked. They can’t show whether care would keep running if your organisation was targeted tomorrow.
Downtime simply isn’t an option. Every new system, supplier and device changes your risk, and your board and DSPT assessors want to know you’re ahead of it. That takes evidence, not assumptions, and that’s what the Swarm gives you.
Keep care running.
Clinical systems, scheduling and pathology are what patients feel first. We test whether they’d hold under a real attack, so disruption is something you’ve prepared for, not something you discover.
Protect patient trust.
A card can be reissued; a medical record can’t. We find the routes to patient data before anyone else does, and show your team exactly how to close them.
Know who has access.
Labs, billing, IT providers and device vendors all connect into your environment. We test those connections in every cycle, not just once at onboarding.
We attack the route to patient care.
Real incidents rarely start with one big flaw. They start with small gaps that line up: a rushed password reset, an unpatched device, a supplier’s remote access. The Swarm tests how those gaps connect, so you can break the chain, not just patch the links.
Identity and service desk
Clinicians, agency staff and shift workers across sites mean constant resets and access requests. We test whether your verification holds up under real pressure, and help your teams hold the line.
Clinical systems and patient portals
Electronic records, portals, scheduling and the integrations between them. We test access controls and APIs so a patient login only ever reaches that patient’s records.
Connected medical devices
Pumps, imaging, monitors and the networks they sit on, often running software that’s hard to patch. We test what’s reachable, within guardrails agreed with clinical engineering, and show you how to segment and protect it.
Suppliers and third parties
Labs, billing, IT providers and device vendors with access into your environment. We test those routes in, so a partner’s weakness doesn’t become yours.
Hospitals, surgeries and offices
Healthcare buildings are open by design, with public corridors and shared workstations. We test whether physical access could lead to digital access, and where simple changes close the gap.
Remote access and cloud
VPNs, remote desktops, telehealth and cloud platforms, often added quickly and rarely revisited. We test the configuration, so remote access works for your teams and no one else.
We know that real attack surfaces don’t come in neat categories. If yours doesn’t fit above, tell us what you’re working with.
The only way to be confident is to face a real attacker.
We become the threat. CovertSwarm gives your healthcare organisation a dedicated team of elite ethical hackers, augmented by agentic tools, that tests your defenses the way a real attacker would, safely and with your teams alongside.
Systems, suppliers, devices and staff change between annual pen tests. Our testing runs in continuous cycles and keeps pace. So does your evidence: proof of what held and what needs work, every cycle, not one report a year.
It complements your annual pen test and supports what your board, auditors and insurers ask for.
Let’s find out.
Constant pressure.
We test every route to what matters most: a call to your service desk, a visitor on a ward corridor, a weak patient portal API. Like a real attacker, we stay focused on an objective, always within safe boundaries agreed with your clinical and IT teams in your Attack Thesis.
Continuous attack cycles. No fixed scopes.
Systems, suppliers, devices and staff change between annual pen tests. Our testing runs in cycles, not on a fixed schedule, and keeps pace. So does your evidence: proof of what held and what needs work, every cycle, not one report a year. It complements your annual pen test and supports what your board, auditors and insurers ask for.
Human experts, augmented by AI.
The Swarm is a team of elite ethical hackers. Agentic tools map your endpoints and third-party connections fast, so humans spend their time chaining weaknesses. You get direct access to the team attacking your brand via Slack.
How it works for healthcare
Your subscription starts with your Attack Thesis: what matters most, and what adversaries would target first.
It starts with what matters most to you: the services patients rely on, the data you're trusted with, and where an adversary would try first.
We agree the objectives and guardrails before anything runs.
Recon
We gather intelligence about your organisation, and prepare to attack key objectives, using both open-source and agentic methods.
New assets enter scope as they emerge.
Qualified findings, not a stream of alerts.
Last cycle's findings direct the next.
OSINT + Agentic reconnaissance
Attack
Based on intelligence or strategic goals, we build and execute custom Attack Plans. We chain weaknesses and exploit every route.
Custom built plans target your actual risk
Chained across digital, physical and social
Led by humans with agentic capability
Point the Swarm at your priorities
Remediate
We notify your team about discovered risks in real-time and provide guided remediation. Get evidence of what held, and what needs work.
You're notified while the risk is live
Guidance in Slack and Jira
Findings inform the next attack cycle
Direct access to the Swarm
See how Constant Cyber Attack™ works in a healthcare environment.
What a Finding Looks Like
Example: Customer portal finding in Healthcare
Critical
Finding
In a client login portal, a Swarm operator found three separate upload areas for IDs, documents and profile pictures, and used them as a way in.
Impact
Within three days: complete control over the web servers, the AWS domains and sensitive database information.
Remediation
Validate every upload server-side and store files where they can never execute. Limit the web server's cloud permissions to what it needs, and use parameterized queries in search.
Board impact
A feature built to make life easier for customers became a route to the most sensitive data the business held. Patient portals that accept uploads need the same scrutiny, and once the route is known, the fix is straightforward.
Technical impact
A custom PHP payload passed the upload checks and ran on the server, giving command execution and a reverse shell. From there: control of the AWS environment and all eight domains and their databases, plus SQL injection in search that allowed data to be taken.
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The full range of offensive security the Swarm runs: every discipline, how they connect, and what each one tests.
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Proof your board, insurers and auditors can see.
The CAF-aligned DSPT asks how well your controls work in practice, not just whether they exist. A real attack is the most direct evidence there is. Every Swarm cycle shows what was attacked, what held and what was fixed.
| Obligation | What it asks for | How the Swarm supports it |
|---|---|---|
| CAF-aligned DSPT | Outcome-based assessment against the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework. The 2026-27 version aligns to CAF 4.0, with submissions due 30 June 2027. | Cycle-by-cycle evidence of controls under real attack, for your submission and independent assessment. |
| NIS Regulations 2018 | Health sector operators of essential services must manage cyber risk and report significant incidents. | Evidence that essential services are tested against realistic attacks. |
| Cyber Security and Resilience Bill | Would update the NIS Regulations and bring more managed and digital service providers, the suppliers healthcare depends on, into scope. Passed the Commons June 2026; Lords report stage scheduled 26 October 2026. | Supplier routes tested as part of every cycle. |
| UK GDPR | Reportable personal data breaches notified to the ICO within 72 hours. | Evidence that the paths to patient data are tested against real attacks. |
Stories from the Swarm
These stories are real, but the names are deeply redacted. We'll tell you how we uncovered the threats no one else could see, and why constant cyber attack is the best way to outpace cyber threats.
Become a story well told. Contact us to discuss how Constant Cyber Attack will help you outpace cyber threats.
Frequently Asked Questions
Healthcare penetration testing is a controlled attack on an NHS trust, independent provider or health tech supplier by qualified ethical hackers, to find the weaknesses a real attacker would use to reach patient data or disrupt care. Continuous red teaming goes further, chaining weaknesses across clinical systems, devices, suppliers and staff the way real attackers do.
The CAF-aligned DSPT is outcome-based, so it asks you to show how well your controls work rather than tick a box. Independent testing is one of the clearest ways to evidence that, and every Swarm cycle produces evidence you can use in your submission and assessment.
No. Every attack runs within guardrails agreed with your clinical and IT teams in your Attack Thesis, and patient care comes first. The goal is to find what breaks without breaking care.
Yes, within agreed boundaries. We test whether an attacker could reach connected devices and the networks around them, working with clinical engineering so nothing in use for patient care is disrupted.
All three. The Swarm attacks digital, social and physical routes, because real attackers move between a phishing email, a service desk call and an unattended workstation on a public corridor.
It would update the NIS Regulations and bring more of the managed and digital service providers healthcare depends on into scope. As of October 2026 it has passed the Commons and is in the House of Lords, so it is not yet law.
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Stop testing.
Start knowing.
You'll know exactly where you stand, and you'll be able to prove it. To your board, your regulator, and yourself.
Transform to a proactive, continuous offensive security programme
Your budget is aimed at the risk that matters, not the one you were handed
You show the board what security prevented, not a request for more
Security clears the way for the business to move faster
You enter the boardroom in command
It starts with a 30-minute Attack Discovery call.
No access to your systems required.