New York Times on Medical Device Security

Credit: Richard Perry/The New York Times

The New York Times recently interviewed the leadership of the Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security. The article provides a balanced perspective on risks and benefits of various approaches for medical device security, and draws on several primary sources.  This balance is an important departure from media articles over the past couple years that largely sensationalize rather than analyze the problem space.  Great to see some in-depth reporting.

Controlling for Cybersecurity Risks of Medical Device Software

[direct link to Peter Neumann's PDF here]

Today, Dr. James Blum (Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Health System) and I published an article that reflects on "Controlling for Cyber Security Risks of Medical Device Software" in the context of the draft FDA guidance on cybersecurity. You can download this Inside Risks Column from the Communications of the ACM.

The ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy conducts peer review of the Inside Risks column in CACM, and also helps the moderator of the RISKS Digest.

-Kevin Fu

Video of USENIX HealthTech Panel w/ Speakers from Adventium Labs, U. Michigan, VA, and FDA

USENIX HealthTech has posted the video of the panel on medical device security from August 2013.

To view the video, visit the USENIX site.

The panelists include:

• Brian Fitzgerald, Deputy Division Director, Division of Electrical and Software Engineering, U.S. Food & Drug Administration Center for Devices & Radiological Health
• Kevin Fu (moderator), Associate Professor and Director, Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security, Computer Science & Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Michigan
• Ken Hoyme, Distinguished Scientist, Adventium Labs and Co-chair, AAMI Medical Device Security Working Group; Former Senior Fellow, Boston Scientific, Cardiac Rhythm Management
• Lynette Sherrill, Deputy Director, Office of Information Security, Field Security Office, Health Information Security Division, Department of Veterans Affairs