Jay Radcliffe, a security researcher who has focused a bulk of his attention to medical device security, led a roundtable discussion on the real state of medical device security at the Black Hat conference on Thursday.
It would be far easier, and more likely, for an attacker to sneak up and hit him fatally over the head with a baseball bat than to kill him with a medical device, Radcliffe noted. Medical devices do more good than harm for the time being, he said.
Understanding medical device security is difficult because the term “medical device” no longer means anything. It could mean insulin pumps and pacemakers and other devices that patients use to manage their health. It could also refer to MRI machines and echo-cardiograms and computers in the hospital running Windows XP. Mobile apps and health-related consumer-focused applications could also be considered under this broad umbrella.
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