About Stratigos Security

Stratigos Security believes that safety-critical technology belongs in the hands of those who can best use it to save and improve lives, without undue risk, cost, or delay. We recruit and retain trusted talent at the intersection of cybersecurity, safety, and regulatory expertise who also believe this. We see our role as building, promoting, and inspiring better ways to do so, across the industry and broader community.

Founding story

Built for a gap nobody else was filling

Medical device cybersecurity sits at the intersection of three disciplines that rarely reside together in a single team: cybersecurity research, medical device safety, and regulatory process. That gap used to show up at the worst possible time: late-stage submission, with questions about cybersecurity that no single advisor could fully answer.

Stratigos closes that gap. Our team brings together cybersecurity practitioners, regulatory advisors with direct FDA experience, and medical device safety experts who operate fluently across all three disciplines. We help teams understand what to do, how to do it, and how to demonstrate to regulators that they've done it.

Our founder's work has focused on medical device cybersecurity for most of the last 25 years, including launching Stratigos in 2012. Manufacturers bring us their most consequential submissions because our methodology has been refined through dozens of engagements with life-sustaining devices, and because we remain actively involved in shaping the cybersafety principles our work supports.

Leadership

Team

Beau Woods, founder and CEO of Stratigos Security

Beau Woods

Founder & CEO

Beau Woods is the founder and CEO of Stratigos Security. He has over 20 years of experience advising organizations on cybersecurity and risk management, with particular focus on the intersection of cybersecurity and safety for connected technology.

Beau served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he directly informed the premarket and postmarket cybersecurity guidance that reviewers use today, and he continues to advise the agency on cybersecurity matters. He helped shape the FDA's Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) Precertification Program. He has also served as a Senior Advisor with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and is a Cyber Safety Innovation Fellow with the Atlantic Council.

Beau is a leader of the I Am The Cavalry grassroots initiative, leads the public policy space at DEF CON, and helped found the Biohacking Village Device Lab, the ICS Village, the Aerospace Village, and Hack the Sea. He has advised Congress and the White House on cybersecurity matters and has consulted across energy, healthcare, automotive, aviation, rail, and IoT industries.

Beau founded Stratigos Security in 2012. Prior to that, he was Managing Principal Consultant at Dell SecureWorks. He holds a BS in Psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Beau has built a team with deep, specialized experience in medical device security, including expertise testing and refining interoperability and security standards with organizations like IHE and RSNA, and years of hands-on security testing on DICOM imaging protocols and embedded device firmware. Together, the team combines regulatory fluency with the kind of technical depth that most cybersecurity firms cannot match.

Beau Woods on ABC News Live Prime, captioned “Cybersecurity expert on global tech outage”
ABC News Live Prime brought Beau on as its cybersecurity expert during the July 2024 global technology outage.
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