As per the trusted sources, the Current director for medical security at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Kevin Fu gave a warning in the previous month regarding the cyber threats to the healthcare and medtech industries.
These risks include Ransomware and other types of malware that are having an increased risk on the online platforms and putting the patient’s safety at major risk.Kevin further stated in the Food & Drug Law Institute annual conference in May that everything can be hacked.
As a response to NIST’s call for position papers on improving the supply chain of software security, the FDA gave a reference to the cyber Attacks in 2021, along with the Ransomware attack, which disabled an Irish healthcare service and ceased the functioning of the hospital for weeks.FDA came to a conclusion that the rising commonness among the Attacks on the medical institutes sheds light on the ungraceful failure of the firewall and safety consequences for not separating.
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