Technological advancements and increased data
As medical devices come on the market with ever greater technical advances, the risk of cybercrime grows, fuelling ransomware attacks on hospitals and healthcare systems, putting patients at medical risk, and leaving device manufacturers facing huge bills. Digital transformation means patients use increasingly sophisticated devices connected to the cloud containing personal and sensitive data.
Securing devices against cyber attacks
According to a recent report*, 53% of connected medical equipment and other IoMT devices in hospitals have known critical vulnerabilities. Further, nearly a third of bedside IoT devices are at critical risk. The challenge for medical device manufacturers is to have failsafe cyber security before healthcare professionals, and patients get their hands on the equipment.
Securing environments
Traditionally, finding and eliminating security flaws during medical device software development is costly and time-consuming. The required expertise is hard to find and holds up what should otherwise be an agile development flow. Until now...