FDA cyber mandates for medical devices goes into effect

Photo caption: A surgeon implants a pacemaker into a patient in an operating room on July 19, 2013 at the Argenteuil hospital, in a Paris suburb. Photo credit: Fred Dufour / AFP. Article by Christian Vasquez. Cyberscoop – October 2, 2023.

The Biden administration is pushing the manufacturers of medical devices to take on greater responsibility to ensure that they are secure.

New regulations that went into effect on Sunday aim to make it more difficult to hack into medical devices by requiring vendors to beef up the security features of things like pacemakers and insulin pumps before they make it onto the market. […]

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