Securing the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)

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Traditionally, medical devices such as pacemakers, insulin pumps and ECG/EKG machines did not have advanced hardware/software stacks and were not network connected.
Broadly labeled as Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) under the Internet of Things (IoT) umbrella, digitalization of med-tech is beginning to play a key role in defining product roadmaps within healthcare companies across the globe.
Startups compete with large and traditional corporations to offer new and advanced medical use cases to healthcare providers and end-customers.
This projected growth is expected to drive new products and services in the digital healthcare space around the world.
The COVID-19 medical crisis has increased demand for virtual healthcare and telemedicine, and will continue to catalyze the shift towards digital solutions and automation over the next 5 years.
Securing IoT (and consequently IoMT) platforms is hard.
Product manufacturers often build IoT systems from a bag of parts — the hardware form factor may be sourced from a manufacturing facility that is geographically and business-wise separate from the software stacks that are developed to run on these hardware.
Modern cloud services offer a host of advanced and high-tech solutions that are oftentimes too complicated for traditional healthcare companies to understand and use securely.
In the United States, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) defines standards for securing PHI and ensuring adequate privacy for medical records.
At

, we recommend a holistic approach for securing any IoT/IoMT platform.
Securing the device includes (but is not limited to) reviews of cryptographic protections offered by the platform, secure boot flows, data read/write protection, exposure of ports/interfaces, and so on.

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