The Department of Homeland Security (specifically the agency’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT) is starting to investigate cyber-security vulnerabilities in medical devices, according to recent news reports.

THaW co-PI Kevin Fu commented on the story: “It’s very easy to sort of sensationalize these problems,” said Kevin Fu, who runs the Archimedes Research Center for Medical Device Security at the University of Michigan.

THaW’s Kevin Fu and Darren Lacey were both key players in this week’s FDA workshop “Collaborative Approaches for Medical Device and Healthcare Cybersecurity”.