Tag: device security

June 28, 2023

The exponential growth of IoT and medical devices across the healthcare sector has increased the attack surface of these organizations. Ransomware attacks continue to grow in volume and scale, with increased impact to connected medical devices, patient care/safety, and exposure […]

June 25, 2018

From medication pumps to pacemakers, people depend on lifesaving devices to live their healthiest possible lives and manage chronic ailments. Many of those patients likely hear about cybercriminals orchestrating massive data breaches, and might get concerned about one of those […]

August 18, 2017

HIPAA regulations—and the mindset they have inspired for information security—can no longer be the standard on which a healthcare information security program is built. The philosophy spawned from the compliance mentality toward information security, in too many instances, has resulted […]

June 7, 2017

Maintaining equipment quality and safety, and implementing preventative maintenance strategies, are key to ensuring that healthcare professionals can meet patients’ needs as quickly and efficiently as possible. Doing that effectively underscores the need to use information technology to better manage […]

April 7, 2017

There’s no doubt that the Internet of Things (IoT) provides critical security challenges for healthcare organizations that need to be addressed. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released guidance on handling medical device vulnerabilities, closely following the release of […]

January 23, 2017

It’s worth remembering that 2016 was dubbed the “year of data security” after 90 percent of healthcare providers suffered data breaches in the previous two years. In particular, the Anthem breach of late 2014 and early 2015 got everyone’s attention […]

January 12, 2017

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning that it has confirmed cybersecurity vulnerabilities in St. Jude Medical’s implantable cardiac devices and its Merlin@home transmitter. The company has acknowledged the vulnerability and this week was making available a software […]

November 18, 2016

Patient safety organization ECRI Institute has launched a cyberattack gap analysis service for healthcare providers, focusing on threats to medical devices that interact with patients. The organization is using internal experts to assess a hospital’s medical device inventory for cyber-exposures […]

November 15, 2016

For many users of Johnson & Johnson’s OneTouch Ping insulin pump, the benefit of ease of use has been outweighed by the fear of hacking. In early October, the company sent letters to patients using the devices, alerting them to […]

September 28, 2016

The healthcare industry is continually evolving with groundbreaking research, medical progressions, and changing business models to improve the quality of care and advance the rate of innovation. Companies are developing new technologies in an effort to support providers and enable […]

August 11, 2016

Hospitals typically have hundreds of medical devices; many may be quite old and unsecure, and IT departments may not remember that they still are computers linked to the corporate network, just like any other computer. They also represent an easy […]