Treating security like safety: What the FDA’s recognition of UL 2900-2-1:2018 means for developers

UL 2900-2-1 calls for the secure design and security testing of medical devices. What does the FDA’s adoption of the standard mean for your development team? By Dan Lyon and Garrett Sipple The original version of this post was published on MedTec… Continue reading Treating security like safety: What the FDA’s recognition of UL 2900-2-1:2018 means for developers

Complex but helpful: Negotiating FDA guidance to build a cybersecurity program

FDA cybersecurity guidance is informed by a long list of standards and recommendations. How can manufacturers translate these documents into practices? By Dan Lyon and Garrett Sipple The original version of this post was published on MedTech Engine. In… Continue reading Complex but helpful: Negotiating FDA guidance to build a cybersecurity program

The US Is Slow to Adopt EHRs, But That Might Actually Be a Good Thing for Healthcare Security

Healthcare security is going to play a huge role if the utopian vision of a purely digital healthcare ecosystem is going to be realized.

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Take a Fresh Look at Your Annual Security Risk Assessment

The importance of a security risk assessment is clear: It helps healthcare organizations ensure their physical, technical and administrative safeguards are compliant with HIPAA requirements. It also assists in showing areas where an organization might… Continue reading Take a Fresh Look at Your Annual Security Risk Assessment

Recapping IBM Think 2019 and HIMSS19: The Shared Landscape of Global Security

We’re only a few months into the year, but HIMSS19 and Think 2019 have already helped shape this year’s focus on enterprise transformation, innovation and global cybersecurity.

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Throwback Thursday: Whatever happened to Anthem?

Whatever happened to Anthem? In 2014–2015, the firm suffered the largest healthcare data breach ever. But healthcare cyber security has improved since then. The data breach of healthcare giant Anthem, which came to light a little more than four y… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Whatever happened to Anthem?

Drive Innovation With Your Security Strategy in 2019

As we enter the second month of 2019, organizations should make sure their security strategy accounts for emerging trends, such as the erosion of customer trust and the cybersecurity skills gap.

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What Does Healthcare Cybersecurity Look Like in a Future of Connected Medical Devices?

What can health care companies do to mitigate the risks inherent in the future of health care cybersecurity?

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How Secure Are Medical IoT Devices? Catherine Norcom Has Her Finger on the Pulse of the Industry

We chatted with X-Force Red’s resident hardware hacker, Catherine Norcom, about the FDA’s recent guidance on securing medical IoT devices.

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Healthcare survey finds abundance of medical device security overconfidence

When facing a determined adversary, it’s one thing to be confident, it’s quite another to be overconfident. But that’s what a new survey of healthcare IT professionals and biomedical engineers found: an overabundance of confidence whe… Continue reading Healthcare survey finds abundance of medical device security overconfidence