New Health Sector Coordinating Council guidance aims to help medical device makers improve their communications regarding security vulnerabilities in their products, says Matt Russo, a security leader at Medtronic and a member of the task group that developed the document.
The mission of HSCC’s recently issued Medtech Vulnerability Communications Toolkit document is to assist medical device vendors in “demystifying” – for clinicians, patients and non-security professionals – vulnerabilities that involve some of the most technically advanced medical therapies available, Matt Russo says.