RESEARCH THERAPY
SECURING MEDICAL DEVICES WITH TRUST LISTS : URGENT PROTECTION FOR HEALTHCARE CENTERS
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Hospital devices in the skilled hands of caregivers are often crucial to creating the best possible patient outcomes , but are those devices secured for the modern world ? One such device is the infusion pump , which is the only way to provide the delivery of fine-tuned amounts of medications in perfect rhythm . Patients in neonatal ICU are dependent on this precious machine to handle a job beyond the abilities of human hands , and many “ smart ” infusion pumps are now part of the Internet of Medical Things ( IoMT ), and therefore vulnerable to cyber attack .
Emergency and life-critical services are reliant on hosts of medical sensors and monitoring devices that are now all being built internet-ready , and in our current environment are rarely secure by design .
Take , for example , the potential effect of cyber threat activity on an MRI or a CT scan . Malware would be able to “ add or remove cancerous nodules , causing a patient to be misdiagnosed or wrongly treated .” The backup generators that every hospital must have on standby more often than not represent an even easier target , as hackers are already familiar with disrupting or taking hostage work sites ’ generators . Healthcare providers require a strong , easy-to-use baseline of cybersecurity solutions to safeguard human lives in their care . �
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