The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is collaborating with companies to address the cybersecurity risks consumers face when they leverage smart home technologies for telehealth.
According to a notice posted in the Federal Register today, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) – part of NIST – is launching the “Mitigating Cybersecurity Risk in Telehealth Smart Home Integration” project to better understand the privacy challenges smart devices pose within the telehealth ecosystem.
NCCoE’s project will result in a publicly available NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide – detailed guidance of the practical steps needed to implement a cybersecurity reference design that addresses this challenge.
“Consumers now use smart home devices as an interface into the telehealth ecosystem,” NCCoE’s project website says. “While the user experience may be improved, practitioners may find challenges associated with deploying mitigating controls that limit cybersecurity and privacy risk given that devices may use proprietary or purpose-built operating systems that do not allow engineers to add protective software.”
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