Threat modeling for medical devices

The antidote to reducing medical device cyber risks. According to GlobalData, spending on cybersecurity in the medical device sector is expected to top $1.2 billion in 2025.
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Why should medical organizations consider threat modeling?

As manufacturers seek to comply with regulations issued by authorities like the FDA in the US, the EU in Europe, and the NHS in the UK. Threat modeling can aid your current remediation and security efforts.

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Threat modeling integrates with existing DevSecOps processes
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Your teams are able to collaborate in real time
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One platform for all departments to view, prioritize, and fix potential threats

Key Challenges

60%
of medical devices are at the end of their life using older, more exploitable tech
88%
of healthcare IT professionals worry that patient information is exposed, lost, accessed, or stolen

Technological advancements and increased data

As medical devices come on the market with ever greater technical advances, the risk of cybercrime grows, fuelling ransomware attacks on hospitals and healthcare systems, putting patients at medical risk, and leaving device manufacturers facing huge bills. Digital transformation means patients use increasingly sophisticated devices connected to the cloud containing personal and sensitive data.

Securing devices against cyber attacks

According to a recent report*, 53% of connected medical equipment and other IoMT devices in hospitals have known critical vulnerabilities. Further, nearly a third of bedside IoT devices are at critical risk. The challenge for medical device manufacturers is to have failsafe cyber security before healthcare professionals, and patients get their hands on the equipment.

Securing environments

Traditionally, finding and eliminating security flaws during medical device software development is costly and time-consuming. The required expertise is hard to find and holds up what should otherwise be an agile development flow. Until now...

So what's the solution? Enter IriusRisk.

Collaboration and secure software, by design
Imagine an easy-to-use threat modeling system that works for your teams throughout the development lifecycle. IriusRisk’s incredibly successful platform does this in a way that encourages collaboration throughout the dev process.
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Increased automation
Your teams can generate automated threat modeling of all cloud-native designs from IaC descriptors, including AWS CloudFormation, HashiCorp Terraform, Microsoft Visio, MicrosoftThreat Modeling Tool and Lucidcharts.With IriusRisk, your threat modeling is simplified and allows multiple teams to see results and impacts in real-time.

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See threat modeling for medical devices in action

Try our interactive demo below and see how easy it is to build a threat model for a Medical Device Gas Management System.
Check out the diagram interface, how to apply standards, monitor threats & create countermeasures and reports (yes, our tool does a lot!).