HITSecurity Forum

Richard Staynings, HIMSS Privacy & Security Committee. Photo: Tina Kitchen. ‘Security is an industry where we are continually developing new solutions without understanding the problem we are trying to fix’. This was the basis for a presentation I gave to the HIMSS Healthcare Security Forum today in Boston. Richard Staynings presents new security technologies. Photo: Malissa O'Rourke Miot. The session discussed the adoption...

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Understanding Medical Device Security

The FDA recall of a medical device last week has caused a bit of a media storm as the general public scrambles to find out more. The fact that a medical device meant to help sustain life is insecure and could be hacked to kill a patient is alarming to all of us. More worrying is that the medical device subject to the recall, a cardiac rhythm management product, or “pacemaker” to the rest of us, is probably not an anomaly. Many other medical...

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