“… But so are the cybersecurity risks, which is why the Department of Homeland Security and Food and Drug Administration have teamed up to implement a new framework for greater coordination and cooperation. Chris Butera, deputy director for cyber threat detection and analysis at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, said a recent memorandum of understanding was meant to formalize that partnership.”
“DHS and FDA have been working together for a number of years on coordinated vulnerability disclosure for medical devices, and what this memo really states is really formalizing the agreement that we have between FDA and DHS and how we’ve worked together over the past few years,” Butera said on Federal Monthly Insights — Security Month. “And with the kind of rising number of vulnerability submissions, we thought it was important to kind of formalize this and elevate the importance of this mission.”
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Source: DHS, FDA partner to spot vulnerabilities in medical devices – By Amelia Brust, December 18, 2018. Federal News Network.
