Digital Health April 13, 2022
Our cyber security columnist, Davey Winder, explains why security conversations surrounding connected medical devices are not over yet.
I’ve been warning about the Internet of Medical Things (IoT) from the threat-mapping perspective since I first started writing on cybersecurity for Digital Health six years ago.
A lot has changed since 2016 and, sadly, much has stayed the same. On the positive side of the connected-device security landscape fence sits the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Bill which, as of 23 March 2022, according to the parliamentary bill’s status site remains at the report stage. Assuming this passes into law before the end of the year, this would prohibit the use of factory set weak default passwords for IoT...