Blog article by Phil Englert, Health-ISAC’s Director of Medical Device Security
Posted June 1 by the TechNation Development Team
By Phil Englert
Increasingly, medical devices are interfaced with the outside world to either take in treatment plans or report out physiological parameters such as blood glucose levels, heart rate, oxygen levels and others. Interoperability – the ability to interact with different devoices, applications or products to exchange data and instructions in a coordinated way – is the great enabler of technology but is not without risks. Each communication boundary presents a risk for the data and the instructions that cross them. Cyber actors can cause medical device failures in several ways.
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