Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
In 2011, Jay Radcliffe, famously hacked into his own insulin pump to demonstrate the gaping vulnerabilities of medical devices. Radcliffe, senior security consultant and researcher with cybersecurity firm Rapid7, will deliver a keynote presentation at MD&M West, Feb. 12 in Anaheim, California and provide a progress report on medical device security over the last four years. In a phone interview Tuesday, Radcliffe outlined five actions medical device manufacturers can take to improve the security profile of their devices. Take A Page Out of Tech Playbook Radcliffe believes that from a technology standpoint, the medical field is 15 to 20 years behind what you can find on your own smartphone. “Insulin pumps are not like your cell phone that you can update,” Radcliffe explains. “So it’s not like your cell phone where Apple comes out with a firmware update to address a problem and you can download it and apply it and it works. These devices can’t do that. They were never meant to be updated.” However, given that personal medical devices such as insulin pumps, glucose meters and other devices are increasingly getting connected to the Internet, it follows that the medtech industry should adopt some tools from the tech […]
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