Protecting Patients: Initiative Aims to Keep Hackers Out of Hospital Medical Devices

Modern hospitals may have thousands of network-connected medical devices that do everything from monitoring patients’ hearts to infusing lifesaving drugs. Protecting those devices from cybersecurity attacks is a time-consuming task for information security (InfoSec) staffs at every hospital.

A new project underway at Georgia Tech aims to help hospital staff protect those devices while providing critical information about the overall security of the networks on which they operate. Funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), the Hospital-Integrated Vulnerability Identification and Proactive Remediation (H-VIPER) project will help hospital InfoSec staff find, track, and fix potential security risks in medical devices used to deliver patient care.