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US Homeland Security-Funded Project Aims To Solve Medtech Cybersecurity Problem

Adventium Labs' ISOSCELES project is being funded by the US Department of Homeland Security to help medical device manufacturers develop better cybersecurity capabilities for their products while complying with FDA guidelines. If successful, the project could become a preferred standard that all connected devices follow.

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A project to develop software that allows medical devices to separate their functions and reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities may be one answer to recent cases of device hacking and hospital ransomware attacks.

In February 2016, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) awarded $2.2m to Adventium Labs, a Minnesota-based cybersecurity research company, to develop the Intrinsically Secure, Open, and Safe Control of Essential LayErS (ISOSCELES) architecture for medical devices, which is intended to align with US FDA guidelines and security requirements

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