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FDA Recommendations on Medical-Device Cybersecurity

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The FDA has issued a report giving medical devices guidance on computer and network security. There’s nothing particularly new or interesting; it reads like standard security advice: write secure software, patch bugs, and so on.

Note that these are “non-binding recommendations,” so I’m really not sure why they bothered.

EDITED TO ADD (1/13): Why they bothered.

Tags: cybersecurity, Internet of Things, medicine, patching

Posted on January 10, 2017 at 7:15 AM32 Comments

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