Apparently attacks against medical devices are on the rise and the FDA is turning to ethical hackers. This is something I’ve thought about before. I don’t know much about medical devices, but I’ve always wondered what would happen if a hacker could somehow force a new pacemaker to segfault or something along those lines. This should be a very good measure to take in the FDA approval process because it will hold developers of these medical devices to a higher security standard. Although, I welcome input from anyone in the medical device field who has some experience in this area.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2018/10/17/the-cybersecurity-202-the-fda-is-embracing-ethical-hackers-in-its-push-to-secure-medical-devices/5bc6156b1b326b7c8a8d1a01/?utm_term=.8f2d100fa6fb
Hi Connor
Thanks for sharing the information with us. It is important to work with ethical hackers to protect systems in organizations. Hackers can look for the vulnerabilities the organization never realized. In addition, ethical hackers are good at testing the patched vulnerabilities. Medical information is confidential to everyone, so it is important to ensure the confidentiality for the information on the systems. Therefore, ethical hackers play important roles in protecting the information.