Rx for medical devices

摘要

Medical device systems have evolved from standalone devices to interconnected systems that communicate across networks and update medical records with sensitive information, exposing manufacturers, providers and patients to new risks and potentially harmful health and safety defects. Net-work-connected-and-configured devices can be infected by malware that provides access to patient data, monitoring systems and implanted patient devices. In June 2013, the FDA issued an alert to medical-device-makers indicating they are responsible for securing their devices against malware attacks and malicious actors, and also recently announced plans to establish a cyber security laboratory, leveraging the fuzz-testing process of sending intentionally malformed inputs to software, with a goal of locating vulnerabilities in medical devices.