When Should You Start Medical Device Cybersecurity? | Ep 89

When is the right time to start cybersecurity for a medical device?

For many manufacturers, the answer still seems to be somewhere close to submission. In this solo episode, Christian Espinosa explains why that approach can create major delays, expensive redesigns and even force companies to abandon products they have spent years developing.

Christian breaks down where cybersecurity should enter the product lifecycle, why requirements and hardware decisions matter, and how frameworks like the SPDF and Total Product Lifecycle change the way manufacturers should think about security.

He also covers penetration testing, secure updates, decommissioning, attack surface reduction and post-market monitoring, showing why cybersecurity has to extend from design through disposal.

In This Episode:

* 00:07 Why manufacturers say they’re “not ready” for cybersecurity

* 02:08 When cybersecurity should actually begin

* 04:19 How early design decisions create security problems

* 06:28 Cybersecurity from cradle to grave

* 10:32 Why hospital networks should be treated as hostile

* 12:41 Secure updates and device decommissioning

* 15:54 Building cybersecurity into development

* 17:07 Post-market monitoring and why waiting costs more

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