For dentists
Web security for dental practices, without hiring a security team.
Patient appointment forms, online intake, the billing portal, the admin dashboard the front desk uses — every part of a modern dental website handles information patients trust you with.
Dental practices sit in a slightly uncomfortable spot. You are a small business, but you are a small business holding personal health information. Your website runs on the same WordPress, Wix, or Squarespace stack everyone else uses — but a leaky contact form on your site is a different kind of incident from a leaky contact form on a t-shirt store.
AuraWatch checks your patient-facing site for the security flaws attackers actually exploit, on a schedule. Findings come in plain English the office manager can act on. Your whole team is included — your dental software vendor, your web developer, the practice manager — at no extra cost.
We are not a HIPAA auditor and we do not replace your privacy officer. We are the layer underneath: the actual website checks that the auditor and the privacy officer want to see evidence for.
Real findings dental practices see in their first week
- Patient intake forms with weak encryption.
Online new-patient forms collect names, dates of birth, sometimes insurance details — submitted over connections with old, retired encryption standards still enabled on the server.
- Appointment-booking widget on a stale plugin.
The vendor released a security fix six months ago. Your site is still on the version before it. We catch it on the next scan.
- Admin dashboard reachable from the open internet.
The website admin page (or a separate
portal.subdomain) sitting on the public internet with no access restrictions and brute-force protection switched off. - Mixed content on the contact page.
The page loads over a secure connection, but pulls in an image, script, or embedded frame over an insecure one. Modern browsers block submission, and a patient who cannot reach you goes to the dentist down the road.
A note on the public record
In the United States, healthcare data breaches affecting 500 or more individuals are published on the HHS OCR breach portal. The point of mentioning it is not to scare you — the register is public, searchable, and indexed. Patients and journalists can look up any practice. The most reliable way to stay off it is to keep the website-side fundamentals healthy: encryption, patches, exposed admin pages. That is the layer AuraWatch covers.
Start free — no card, no payment info.
One target, weekly scans, the core security checks, plain-English findings.