It’s easy to dismiss discussions of medical device cybersecurity as all gloom-and-doom. Just scan the scary headlines about hackable devices and weighty alerts from the FBI.
But one cybersecurity ace sees recent developments in a more positive light. Corman, cofounder of I Am The Cavalry, was one of the organizers of the CyberMedRx Medical CyberSafety Summit held in December and he views the collaboration among numerous stakeholders and FDA’s recent approach to the issue as big wins. “What [FDA is] doing instead of adding a lot of new regulatory burden is they’re interpreting existing ones in an elegant way,” he said.
2015 a Year of Collaboration
A grassroots organization founded in 2013, The Cavalry focuses on cybersafety in the medical, home, automotive, and public infrastructure fields. The mood at the December summit was in line with what Corman explains are the organization “Four C’s”: Collecting, Connecting, Collaborating, and Catalyzing. “There was a belief that pulling these stakeholders togethers that A: they wouldn’t come—and we had nearly every stakeholder group represented—and then B: that there’d be fireworks . . .” he said.
Instead of fireworks, highlights included a physician’s testimonial that cybersecurity professionals are often viewed as the cause of device delays and “the voice of no,” as well as another viewpoint from Marie Moe, a pacemaker patient and information security researcher, on the importance of understanding how to reduce the risk of abuse. (Watch a talk Moe gave recently,“Unpatchable: Living with a vulnerable implanted device”) For the full article click here
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