Internxt Achieves HIPAA Compliance

Internxt has officially achieved HIPAA compliance, marking a major step forward in protecting sensitive health information with the same commitment to privacy and security that defines our cloud storage and product suite.

For the past 14 years, healthcare data has faced the most breaches and the highest costs due to the highly sensitive nature of patient data.

For this reason, Internxt has taken the necessary measures to achieve HIPAA compliance to ensure that all health-related data stored in its cloud remains private, encrypted, and accessible only to authorized users.

Alongside GDPR, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 compliance, Internxt is marching forward in its mission to provide privacy and total data protection for all industries and individuals.

Table of contents

• What is HIPAA compliance?
• Why HIPAA compliance is essential
• How Internxt gained HIPAA compliance
• Internxt compliance
• Our commitment to privacy and security
• Get Internxt

What is HIPAA compliance?

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is a set of rules designed to protect people’s medical information by keeping it private, secure, and only shared with authorized parties.

This information is defined as:

• Personal information: Name, address, birth date, phone number, email, Social Security number, and any other information that can identify someone.
• Medical information: Diagnoses, treatment plans, medications, test results, and medical histories.
• Health care service records: Doctor visits, hospital stays, surgeries, therapies, or any medical procedures.
• Payment and billing information: Health insurance details, claims information, and payment history.
• Electronic health records: Lab results, imaging files, and physician notes stored digitally
• Written communication: Emails, letters, or forms containing health information.

HIPAA compliance protects patient data, builds trust, prevents costly breaches, ensures legal compliance, and reduces fines for clinics, hospitals, or other medical bodies.

Thanks to Internxt’s secure cloud storage, all protected data stays safe, meeting HIPAA standards with zero-knowledge and post-quantum encryption and built-in access controls in Internxt Drive to prevent breaches.

Why HIPAA compliance is essential

For 14 consecutive years, healthcare has been the number one targeted sector and most costly industry for cyberattacks and data breaches.

In 2025, the cost and duration of healthcare data breaches far surpass the global average, as the statistics below show.

• Average Cost of a breach: $7.42 million
• Industry Rank: #1 most expensive for 14th consecutive year
• Breach Lifecycle: 279 days (time to detect and contain)
• Global Average cost of a data breach: $4.44 million

These statistics show the importance of protecting healthcare industries and data with secure cloud storage services that comply with HIPAA’s security standards.

By gaining HIPAA compliance, Internxt offers healthcare businesses an encrypted cloud storage solution to prevent cyberattacks that target sensitive patient information, and reduce the strict fines for these industries by helping protect companies from data breaches.

How Internxt gained HIPAA compliance

HIPAA compliance is a regulatory standard that is based on an organization’s ability to demonstrate that it has implemented the required policies, procedures, and safeguards to keep protected health information (PHI) secure.

Companies gain HIPAA compliance by implementing a combination of policies, procedures, and technical protocols.

HIPAA states that companies must

“[...] maintain reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to prevent intentional or unintentional use or disclosure of protected health information … and to limit its incidental use or disclosure.”

Therefore, Internxt followed the following requirements for HIPAA compliance for its service.

Conduct a risk assessment.

Evaluate how PHI is collected, stored, transmitted, and accessed, and identify potential vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized access, breaches, or data leaks. If identified, the necessary security protocols are put in place to prevent potential cyberattacks or data breaches.

Implement secure protocols

HIPAA compliance requires that administrative, physical, and technical measures be put in place for additional layers of data protection.

Administrative safeguards include policies, employee training, and procedures. Physical safeguards cover secure storage and restricted access to facilities.

Technical measures include encryption, access controls, audit logs, and secure communication protocols, all of which Internxt includes in its personal and business cloud storage plans.

Train employees

All Internxt employees have been trained in the principles of privacy and confidentiality, proper handling and storage of sensitive data, secure communication practices, and how to identify potential security risks such as phishing attacks or unauthorized access.

Monitor and audit regularly

Due to the ever-evolving landscape of new technologies and cyberthreats, gaining and maintaining compliance is an ongoing process. That’s why at Internxt, we continuously review systems, access logs, and procedures to detect vulnerabilities and ensure ongoing compliance.

Internxt compliance

Aside from HIPAA compliance, Internxt also complies with other bodies to ensure that we offer the best security standards possible, so you get total peace of mind that your files and data are safe with us.

GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU law designed to protect individuals’ personal data and give them more control over how it is collected, stored, and used.

Internxt being GDPR compliant means we implement strong data security measures, transparent policies, and user rights management. This means we offer assurance that your personal information is stored safely, handled transparently, and protected from misuse or unauthorized access.

GDPR compliance also ensures that we apply privacy-by-design principles and protections to every part of the system architecture from the start.

Learn more about GDPR compliance and its importance for cloud storage providers from the article below.

ISO 27001

ISO 27001 is an international standard for managing information security. It provides a structured framework for identifying, managing, and protecting sensitive information to ensure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

ISO 27001 compliance certifies that it:

• Covers all technical infrastructure, applications, and systems supporting cloud-based services
• Includes processes for collecting, storing, sharing, and managing customer and business data
• Applies to key business functions such as HR, Engineering, Product Management, Customer Support, Sales and Marketing, and Finance

ISO 27001 compliance ensures that their data is stored in an environment built on security best practices, minimizing the risk of unauthorized access, leaks, or disruptions.

Combined with our end-to-end encrypted cloud storage, you get full confidence that your information is handled responsibly, securely, and in line with international standards.

Read more about how Internxt achieved ISO 27001 compliance from our blog.

SOC 2

Finally, Internxt will soon achieve SOC 2 compliance, a security and privacy standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) that evaluates how companies handle and protect customer data.

It focuses on five key principles:

1. Security
2. Availability
3. Processing integrity
4. Confidentiality
5. Privacy

SOC 2 compliance involves implementing strict controls, documenting procedures, and undergoing independent audits to verify that data protection measures are effective. Companies must demonstrate that these controls are consistently followed and regularly updated.

For more information about SOC 2 compliance and what it entails, follow the link to the full article below.

External independent audits

Finally, all of Internxt’s open source code has been independently tested by a leading pentesting company, Securitum. This security audit tested all Internxt’s architecture and app, verifying it as a secure platform that keeps your data private.

Our commitment to privacy and security

Internxt's mission is to provide secure cloud storage that protects your data rather than profit from it.

We do this thanks to our zero-knowledge policies, compliance, and by never sharing your data with third parties.

Thanks to our constant improvements to Internxt Drive, as well as the addition of these products to our ecosystem:

• Antivirus
• VPN
• Cleaner
• Meet
• Mail

Internxt gives you full control of your privacy, with secure products to protect you from malware, hackers, and other cyberthreats.

Our drive product also extends to Internxt business and family plans, offering the same protection online for your business or family.

Finally, for enterprise cloud storage, Internxt offers S3 object storage. With it, you can store and quickly access large amounts of data, with no egress or ingress fixed, at a fixed cost.

Get Internxt

For compliance, security, and peace of mind that your data is safe, join Internxt for free, or take advantage of our affordable annual or lifetime plans to get private cloud storage and much more.

Plans are broken down into Essential, Premium, and Ultimate, so whichever one you choose, you will get the perfect product suite to stay safe online and finally say goodbye to big tech companies looking to profit from your data.