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FDA Demands Medical Devices to up their Security!

April 20, 2018

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The US Food & Drug Administration plans to ask Congress for more funding and regulatory powers to improve its approach towards medical device safety, including on the cybersecurity front.

An FDA document released this week reveals several of the FDA’s plans, including the desire to force device makers to include mandatory update systems inside products for the purpose of delivering critical security patches.

Medical devices to come with a “Software Bill of Materials”
In addition, the FDA also plans to force device makers to create a document called “Software Bill of Materials” that will be provided for each medical device and will include software-related details for each product.

Read More at the Source: FDA Wants Medical Devices to Have Mandatory Built-In Update Mechanisms


by: Catalin Cimpanu

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