News broke that hackers can remotely access and manipulate the Medfusion 4000 Wireless Syringe Infusion Pump – raising further concerns around the healthcare IoT. Gordon Morrison, Director of Government Relations at McAfee commented below.
Gordon Morrison, Director of Government Relations at McAfee:
However, we’ve seen that despite the massive potential of the healthcare Internet of Things, a number of these devices are vulnerable to hacking – putting both hospital networks and the patients themselves at risk. It is essential to ensure these devices are not introduced at the expense of the safety of the patient and their data. Achieving this will be twofold: ensuring that the devices are built securely by design and with the necessary security controls in place; as well as a security policy for connected devices in hospitals, to ensure that they can’t access sensitive data and are regularly patched against newly-discovered vulnerabilities.”
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