Cyber attacks and data breaches in healthcare are on the rise. Security researchers have been warning about the need to secure medical devices and the impact of insecure devices on patient lives. The recent proliferations of ransomware like 'WannaCry' and 'Petya' further emphasizes the need to have a robust security policy for the most critical of the assets in a healthcare delivery organization. A recent research study published in May 2017 by Ponemon Institute* sponsored

The aftermath of WannaCry ransomware attacks have left many healthcare CIOs, CISOs and medical device manufacturers more concerned about device security than ever. The healthcare community, however, has been aware of potential cybersecurity related vulnerabilities and threats to their medical devices for sometime now. In fact, many publications, experiments and actual events have tried to surface these risks: In 2011 , a security expert hacked into an insulin pump at the Blac