Online Roadshow | Medical Device Cybersecurity Life-Cycle Assessment
In light of the emerging threat of cybercrime leading regulators as the US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) or the European Commission introduced strict security requirements for medical devices, which are mandatory to fulfill in order to successfully obtain market access for the products. Planning a market access to the EU, manufacturers of medical devices are supplementary challenged due to the short transition phase to EU MDR (EU 2017/745) and EU IVDR (EU 2017/746).
To close the gaps between the regulatory frameworks and the industry specific security considerations, a new set of standards and standard families are being adopted and published to specifically address cybersecurity in medical/healthcare application. Managing cybersecurity throughout the entire life-cycle of a medical device is a major challenge that requires, among other things, risk management, threat-modeling and security testing such as penetration testing or vulnerability scanning.