The interconnectedness of medical devices, which generate data that can be distributed to multiple systems that are often managed by different policies, presents privacy concerns that device manufacturers must address, said Adam Hesse, CEO of Full Spectrum.
The deployment of an asset management platform is helping Main Line Health gain deeper visibility and better security over the 100,000-plus medical devices and IoT gear used throughout the group's multiple hospitals and medical facilities, said CISO Aaron Weismann, who discusses the implementation.
What kind of people do cybersecurity for a living? In the past, there was a formula potential practitioners followed, but today there are many ways to get into the field and having people from diverse backgrounds is valued. The Curry brothers discuss the cybersecurity profession.
Updating software as new vulnerabilities are discovered persistently remains a top medical device cybersecurity challenge, said David Brumley, a cybersecurity professor at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of security firm ForAllSecure. Solving this requires a major mindset shift, he said.
Medical device makers submitting products for premarket approval by the Food and Drug Administration often struggle the most with cybersecurity in three major areas - design controls, providing a software bill of materials and testing, according to Nastassia Tamari of the FDA.
Robotic medical devices, such as surgical gear, offer great potential to improve patient care, but the cyber risks associated with these products must be carefully addressed, said Kevin Fu, director of the Archimedes Center for Health Care and Medical Device Cybersecurity at Northeastern University.
Besides not doing cyberthreat modeling at all, some the biggest mistakes medical device manufacturers can make are starting the modeling process too late in the development phase or using it simply as a "paper weight exercise," said threat modeling expert Adam Shostack of Shostack & Associates.
The many kinds of OT and IoT gear that are not regulated medical devices but are critical to run hospitals and other care facilities present a variety of cybersecurity and patient safety concerns, said Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania Medicine.
Healthcare organizations and makers of medical devices need to think about how to safeguard their critical medical gear against future cyberthreats, including the looming dangers posed by quantum computing, said Mike Nelson, global vice president of digital trust at security firm DigiCert.
Tens of millions of patient records are exposed on the internet as many healthcare providers and hospitals have moved their medical imaging system storage infrastructures to the cloud without putting adequate security measures in place, warns security researcher Sina Yazdanmehr of Aplite.
Your supply chain is your new attack surface, according to Galit Lubetzky Sharon, the co-founder and CEO of Wing Security. She discusses Wing's solution - Secure SaaS Posture Management, or SSPM - that helps organizations ensure that all of their SaaS apps are safe and compliant.
It's not just medical device cybersecurity that's keeping some healthcare security leaders up at night - it's also the risks posed by other critical connected gear that patients and clinicians depend upon, said Ali Youssef, director of medical device and emerging tech security at Henry Ford Health System.
This podcast delves into the concept of protocol isolation - a security measure that isolates network protocols and the assets to which they are connected. Grant Burst of Wallix addresses the challenges of implementing protocol isolation and provides practical solutions for securing your OT network.
While patient safety risks posed by unpatched security vulnerabilities in legacy medical devices often grab headlines, healthcare entities shouldn't underestimate the serious business risks involving other poorly secured IoT and OT gear used in healthcare settings, said Mohammad Waqas of Armis.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Insights," Antoinette Hodes of Check Point Research discusses the need to consolidate an organization's cybersecurity posture, gain visibility into OT and IT assets, and use cybersecurity education to increase worker safety.
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