Malware: New Attacks Evade Detection

Long-life medical devices - products typically used for a decade or longer - are among the most post-quantum, cryptographically vulnerable technologies in healthcare, said Joern Lubadel, global head of product security at German-based medical device and healthcare products maker B. Braun.

Rural hospitals and clinics continue to struggle with a lack of cyber resources but a federal grant program set to provide $50 billion worth of funding across all 50 states could hopefully help lessen some of the pain, said Jim Roeder, VP of IT at Lakewood Health System in Minnesota.

Medical device cyber challenges are among the most complex for manufacturers and healthcare delivery organizations for a variety of reasons, but there are some promising developments underway that could help ease the pain, said Phil Englert of the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

Real and intense financial pressures on rural and small healthcare clinics mandate making difficult decisions on allocating funds to cybersecurity, said Greg Sieg, CISO at the University of Michigan Regional Health Network. "The funding is just not there."