ECRI Institute named the Methodist Hospital of Southern California as the winner of its 8th Annual Health Devices Achievement Award. The hospital won for developing a integrated systems management program that identified vulnerable equipment.
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Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) is a way to do away with passwords. It is a standards-based, open protocol supported by an alliance of companies that will be making use of the FIDO authentication process instead of the old, tired-out password process.
Read MoreVirtual patching is an interim workaround that can be applied much more quickly than a software patch to newly discovered vulnerabilities, and without causing disruption to the day-to-day operation of the facility.
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An increasingly critical element of the medical device life cycle is security. This article offers one example of an approach for incorporating security and privacy into the life cycle management process.
Read MoreFollowing a recent safety communication on medical device cybersecurity, the FDA has indirectly announced that it plans to develop a cybersecurity laboratory. The new lab will use a procedure called fuzzing or fuzz testing to test for software flaws.
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