Medical Device Blog: Cybersecurity’s Triple D

By Phil Englert
Food Network fans may be familiar with Guy Fieri’s classic greasy spoon road trip across America known as “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.” The program focuses on small, independent eateries, regional styles or ethnic specialties.
Cybersecurity has its own Triple D – Design, Default and Demand. Design, Default and Demand are three concepts that HTM professionals can apply to the medical device environment to help ensure the equipment needed to provide patient care is available and safe. Secure by Design is an approach to software and product development that prioritizes security from the beginning of the design process. Secure by Default is a security principle that ensures products are configured with the most secure settings. Secure by Demand is a principle that empowers software customers to ensure that the products they procure are designed with security as a core consideration. Let’s review each principle and explore what implementation can look like.
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