A recently released medical device cybersecurity benchmark developed by the Medical Device Innovation Consortium and Booz Allen aims to support manufacturers with assessing their current security posture against needed standards, while urging these vendors to take a more proactive stance in developing their products for the healthcare sector.
A reactive security posture may work for other sectors, “there’s simply too much at stake for medical device manufacturers to not strive for a ‘left of boom’ approach to cyber in which robust cybersecurity protocols are in place before a cyberattack occurs,” the researchers wrote.
The benchmark includes a report generated from a survey of 44 questions to 17 device manufacturers, who provided insight into their current security processes based on the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework, which assesses product and service maturity.
The scale used ranges from 0, or not initiated, to 5, or “optimized.” The average composite score was a notable 1.51, or between “initiated” and “managed”),…
