Engineering
Security and Compliance for Insurance Apps
March 2, 2026 · 8 min read
SOC 2, HIPAA, GLBA, state privacy laws and app store review — a build checklist that keeps launches on schedule.
Know which regimes touch your data
Health lines pull in HIPAA. Anything with financial account data pulls in GLBA safeguards. California, Colorado, Virginia and a growing list of states add consumer privacy obligations on top.
Map every field you collect to a regime and a retention period before you write the first migration.
Build the boring controls early
Encryption in transit and at rest, per-environment key management, least-privilege service accounts, immutable audit logs and MFA for internal tooling. Retrofitting these after a pen test is far more expensive than building them in.
Plan for app store review
Insurance apps get extra scrutiny: account deletion, data-use labels and clear disclosure of third-party SDKs are common rejection reasons. Budget a review cycle rather than assuming a same-week approval.
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