Integra Systems, Inc. will be presenting at this conference January 25-26 in Baltimore.
http://tcbi.org/iotmdsec/
This conference and the agenda is very timely due to the overall topic of cybersecurity in general; but also how to address security related to IOT and medical devices in healthcare. Use discount code 45 for a $300 discount on the registration fee.

Healthcare providers and medical device companies are currently facing ever growing financial, legal, operational, and patient safety challenges as a result of cybersecurity threats. Malware attacks are evolving and becoming more sophisticated, while preventable privacy breaches are becoming more common in all industries across the globe. The fall in the black market price of stolen data along with improvements in “Black Hat” customer service implies we are facing a mature, evolving, and resilient enemy.
The Healthcare industry is moving to new revenue models, value based care, shared risk, and precision medicine, creating a growing proliferation of distributed and connected medical devices, and cloud based IT systems incorporating personal genetic, medical, and behavioral data. These systems must share not only clinical data, but also financial, risk, and vulnerabilities with each other.
As connections grow and devices move out of the hospital into patients’ homes and to geographically distributed providers, new threats, new vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, and hazards are created that go far beyond the typical concerns of stand-alone components. Stolen information is being combined with stolen financial and publicly disclosed personal data to create new black market “products”. Safeguarding our entire care delivery systems requires meeting the daunting challenge of maintaining regulatory compliance, ensuring patient confidence, detecting insider threats, and maintaining the integrity of shared data all without interfering with patient care.
Addressing these issues involves an ever-expanding body of stakeholders: regulated and unregulated manufacturers, public and private payers, both the healthcare financial and technology industries, regulators, standards bodies, as well as hospitals, providers, payers, the law enforcement community and – not least of all – patients.
We are at a critical juncture in Healthcare. As an industry, we must combat these threats in multiple dimensions and on many fronts. The Summit will bring together healthcare, medical device, and security experts to offer a unique complete end-to-end perspective on the cybersecurity environment – from the economics and motivations of ransomware authors to the needs of the patient.
See the title of and abstract of our presentation.
Title: Innovations in Secure IOT Medical Device Application Support.
Abstract: Many medical device companies now have applications servers that require support and also upgrades of application software. Devices have evolved from standalone devices to modern complex IT systems. The traditional way to provide this support is by either on-site service or by the use of a VPN (virtual private network). On site service is costly. The traditional device service model for devices doesn’t work with modern software deployment architectures. Healthcare institutions are often reluctant to provide VPN access to a vendor without a lengthy legal approval process. Some institutions refuse VPN access. Hospitals face legal/liability/regulatory/quality barriers to enabling vendor access to their systems (both the vendor product, and hospital systems that must be accessed to support the vendor’s product). For example, hospitals often deny vendors VPN access because of privacy, legal, compliance reasons. Security of the network is the highest priority of the institution. Security is a high priority, but can never be perfect. Security is a trade-off between convenience, cost, support, etc. New support/service models in the industry that look to address these issues are discussed and compared.