Happy new year! We brought you a present. Today we're open-sourcing Tapirx, our tool to passively discover and identify medical devices on clinical (or any) networks.
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Topics: Asset Discovery, Network Assets, Connected Medical Devices, Legacy Medical Devices
It's been an amazingly busy year for medical device security. In 2015, the average hospital had not heard of ransomware. (We warned of the hospital malware onslaught in 2012!) In 2016, the hospital C-suites began asking us, "Could that happen here??" after neighboring health systems were taken offline for days by malware. Duh, yes. The important question is how will you ensure that hospital operations continue to remain available to deliver patient care despite legacy capital equipment, cybersecurity risks, and the shifting threat landscape.
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Topics: Healthcare Cybersecurity, Ransomware, Medical Device Security, Clinical Security, CMMS, Asset Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Legacy Medical Devices, Inventory Management
This blog post is about the long awaited fact sheet from HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on ransomware, and why you should take this one seriously in terms of having an accurate inventory of networked medical devices to reduce the probability of enjoying the pleasure of reporting a breach to OCR.
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Topics: Healthcare Cybersecurity, Ransomware, Medical Device Security, Clinical Security, CMMS, Asset Management, Enterprise Risk Management, Legacy Medical Devices, Inventory Management
In our last post, we brought you some information about internships at Virta Labs and our recruiting process.
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Topics: RECRUITING, Medical Device Security, Healthcare Cybersecurity, Legacy Medical Devices