FDA Calls On Medical Devicemakers To Focus On Cybersecurity

The problem with implantable devices is that they are severely power constrained, as typically a battery life of less than 5 years is considered unacceptable, with 10 years wanted for something like a cardiac pacemaker.

This leaves very little power for CPU/communications/encryption functions. Any kind of crypto hardware, or any kind of unnecessary complexity in the firmware (e.g. duplicated bound checking, etc.) is likely to increase energy consumption and shorten battery life.

This is becoming less of a pro

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