Contec and Epsimed Monitors Containing ‘Backdoors’ Are at the Center of Order
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While the Texas efforts could help the state to better identify and monitor medical devices for potential cybersecurity issues, the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center has seen no evidence indicating a rising foreign threat targeting medical devices, said Phil Englert, vice president of medical device security at Health-ISAC.
The Health sector organization supports efforts to bring medical practices and cybersecurity experts together, he said. “Health-ISAC supports this type of collaborative approach and encourages agencies to pair inventory efforts with basic protections that strengthen resilience across medical devices and IoT systems,” Englert said.
Important medical device security practices all healthcare entities should implement include maintaining an accurate device inventory, segmenting and isolating devices based on risk, strengthening identity and access controls, applying patches or compensating controls, monitoring device communication patterns and establishing incident response plans tailored to medical device groups, Englert said.
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