Securing IoMT for Healthcare
We live in an amazing time, one in which a growing number of sophisticated, ‘Internet of Medical Things’ (IoMT) are facilitating critical treatments to improve patient health. Consider just two: difficult-to-monitor, chronic conditions like diabetes and heart failure are benefitting from “smarter” insulin pumps and pacemakers – both aided by real-time, remote monitoring and feedback... Continue reading
Week 2 of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
No doubt, 2020 has disturbed the status quo in numerous ways, impacting our work, schooling, and social gatherings – even the way we receive our healthcare. And while the pandemic has hastened a transition to increased virtualized care and telehealth, a recent analysis notes how this change was already well underway, even before Covid-19 was... Continue reading
Week 1 of National Cybersecurity Month
If You Connect It, Protect It October is National Cybersecurity Month, and ‘If you connect it, protect it’ is the theme for week #1. (With over 90% of the US population now on the internet, the theme easily might have been ‘When you connect it, protect it’). It’s an apt reminder, as cybercriminals are capitalizing on... Continue reading
How to Save a Life
Sadly, it’s happened: As reported in the New York Times, on September 10 a woman fighting for her life was turned away from the University Hospital, Düsseldorf because hospital servers were infected with ransomware. With vital systems crashing, emergency treatment could not be administered. By the time the woman could receive services – in another hospital,... Continue reading