Security and Privacy Qualities of Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Postmarket Surveillance

Today, the PLoS ONE journal has published our analysis of a decade's worth of public FDA data to gain insight into the security and privacy qualities of medical devices.  The technical paper appears at PLoS ONE.

Google and Bing can help you find our analysis translated into layperson terms.  Here are some links:

• Medical device security info lacking
• Medical device security isn't tracked well, research shows

This interdisciplinary research was made possible by the DHHS SHARPS project and the Trustworthy Computing/Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program at NSF.  This work was sponsored in part by Health and Human Services (HHS) Grant Number 90TR0003/01 and National Science Foundation award CNS-0831244. The contents of the paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Department of Health and Human Services. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in these materials are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.