FDA won’t do that: Cybersecurity edition

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The medical device industry should not treat cybersecurity as though it were a check box—and they may want to brush up on FDA’s role, says Seth Carmody, PhD, cybersecurity program manager at FDA.

Speaking this week during an  HIMMS 2017 education session, Carmody warned that the clinical environment “represents a large attack surface for national security today,” as reported by Healthcare Informatics.  He also said that if medtech continues to focus only on intended use, they are creating an underbelly of security vulnerability that will need collaborative measures between manufacturers, providers, and regulators.

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