The Cybersecurity Risk Inside Medical Devices: How Connected Equipment is Creating a New Patient Safety Challenge in India
Consider an infusion pump silently administering medicines in a hospital ward, connected to the Wi-Fi network of the hospital for remote tracking of the dosage by nurses, and running outdated firmware with a publicly documented vulnerability that has not been patched in ages. Unlike a ransomware attack that infects the entire hospital infrastructure and garners public attention, such threats operate silently within the hardware itself until a problem arises.
Connected medical device cybersecurity is the field of study that aims at eliminating precisely this threat, and it is only now gaining regulatory recognition in India. This paper describes why medical devices are special from a cybersecurity perspective, the current state of regulation in India, and what global statistics show regarding the nature of the problem.
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