HIPAA-compliant database protection with automated PHI masking

Every query touching patient data is intercepted, analyzed, masked where required, and logged — without slowing your application. The audit trail your compliance team needs, generated automatically.

Stack diagram — EHR system → Clinical API → Safe Boundary proxy → PostgreSQL + PHI masking overlay

Spectral Core — Established 2004 · Microsoft Partner · Google Partner · ISO 27001 Certified

Healthcare databases are the most expensive to breach

The average healthcare data breach costs $9.77M — the highest of any industry (IBM Ponemon). Healthcare records sell for 10x the price of financial records on the dark web. HIPAA penalties for willful neglect run $50,000–$1.9M per violation category.

PHI is in more places than your compliance team knows — notes columns, JSON blobs, audit tables, analytics DBs. AI agents access tables across your schema, not just the ones security mapped.

What Safe Boundary enforces

Automated PHI masking
AI-driven detection identifies PHI in results — diagnoses, medications, identifiers, dates of service, provider info — without manual column tagging. Covers columns you know and notes / JSON you don't.
Minimum Necessary Access enforcement
Clinical staff: assigned patients only. Analytics: de-identified data. AI: masked by default; unmasked only with explicit policy approval.
Structured HIPAA audit trail
Who accessed what, when, outcome (allowed, masked, blocked). Supports §164.312(a)(2)(i) and §164.312(b). Export-ready for compliance — not a raw log dump.
Breach detection and response support
Flag bulk PHI selects, unexpected sources, off-hours service access. Full history searchable by time, user, table, outcome.

HIPAA evidence package

PHI access report — queries touching protected fields
Masking effectiveness report — masked vs. total PHI events
Disclosure log — unmasked PHI with policy justification
Retention attestation — 6-year log retention

Data residency and BAA

Enterprise tier deploys the proxy inside your VPC. Patient data never leaves your environment. The control plane receives metadata and health signals only. A BAA is available for Enterprise and Enterprise+. Healthcare deployments must operate on Enterprise or Enterprise+ (not cloud-hosted Starter or Shield).

Pricing for Healthcare SaaS

	Enterprise	Enterprise+
Price	$899/db/mo ($8,490/db/yr)	Custom ($100K+ ACV)
Deployment	Your VPC	Your VPC or fully self-hosted
PHI masking	✓	✓
HIPAA audit reports	✓	✓
BAA available	✓	✓
SSO identity	✓	✓
Source code escrow	—	✓
NDA audit rights	—	✓

At $100K/year, Safe Boundary is ~1% of the average healthcare breach cost. Automated audit trails replace $50–100K/year in manual compliance work.

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Spectral Core — ISO 27001 certified · SOC 2 Type II in progress · HIPAA BAA available · Established 2004 · 22 years in production