Connected medical devices, or the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), bring cybersecurity challenges including legacy systems, weak authentication, unsegmented networks, and lack of visibility. Measures to mitigate these risks should include conducting inventories and risk assessments, implementing network segmentation, zero trust architecture, and artificial intelligence for anomaly detection. Collaboration, timely security updates, and detailed response plans are also key to safeguard patient and organizational security.
The NCSC wants developers to get serious on software security
The NCSC’s new Software Security Code of Practice has been praised by cyber professionals as a significant advancement in enhancing software supply chain security.
