In this Information Age article, Dr. Karpliuk provides several reasons for building security into IoT devices rather than trying to bolt it on later. This is exactly the case for 5G deployments – attention must be given to evaluating privacy and security, especially...
Several healthcare and health IT industry groups are asking congress to rethink privacy concerns under the 21st Century Cures Act. While the good intent of the act is to easily facilitate the exchange of health information and provide patients with access to their...
IoT devices are the glue to an interconnected world or things. In some cases those “things” can harvest, digest, store and share their data (which can be your personal data) to a variety of enterprise systems in the cloud. Does big brother really care about what I...
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is part of, and a key enabler for the emerging field of “Digital Health.” While the field holds great promise in chronic condition management, telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and more, it also poses unique cybersecurity...
Open any browser and type in the phrase medical device hacks and you’ll get over 15 million results. Not that the number of results directly reflect the actual number of incidents, it does demonstrate the scope of the problem – any connected device has the potential...
In November, 2016, Armis Security announced that approximately 20 million Amazon Echo and Google Home devices were vulnerable to attacks by a malevolent exploit called BlueBorne. This announcement was coordinated with Amazon and Google, which had released patches to...
Protecting the IoT: Thousands of cyber attacks caused by a single vulnerability The Internet of Things (IoT) is an ever-growing set of applications deployed across several physical enterprise and embedded servers. Like any distributed solution, the IoT has security...
