Press
What we can speak to
Medical device safety, attacks on hospitals and what they do to patient care, what FDA and international regulators expect of manufacturers, and coordinated disclosure. On the record or on background.
If your question is outside what we actually know, we will say so and try to point you at someone who does.
The arguments, and where they ran
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A device flaw is a safety problem, not an IT problem
“Medical devices are lifesaving and life preserving, but they also can have flaws that could put someone's life at risk.”
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An attack on healthcare and medical devices is a patient safety event
We've had several wake-up calls, and adversaries have noticed complacency.
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Rules should hold the maker to an outcome, the way fire codes do
Telling people to be careful has never made a building safe. Fire codes did, by putting the duty on whoever builds the thing. State the outcome rather than name the technology and the rule still means something in ten years, which is about how long a device stays in service.
Wired, 2018 The Washington Post, 2020 Council on Foreign Relations, 2017
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Buyers cannot choose safety they cannot see
“It is untenable to deny buyers information to factor security into buying decisions.”
The documents