Medical Device Security – A Challenge to Overcome

The device security challenge is how to deliver cutting edge therapies without falling prey to cutting-edge cyberattack strategies. Medical devices’…

Do your industrial devices meet today’s industry standards for safety and security?

With today’s industrial Internet of Things enterprise or ecosystem, functional safety is mandatory to ensure that the industrial enterprise meets…

Using Safety to Improve Reliability in Medical Systems

This time, last month, we discussed the safety-driver development process for medical devices; now let’s take a short look at…

Three pillars of medical device safety development

Establishing the safety and security of medical device software is critical to protect patients. The IEC 62304 standard provides a…

Device Security: You vs. Future Security Vulnerabilities

If testing and protecting your device from known issues, is equivalent to closing a treasure vault’s door, by that analogy,…

Building functional safety while minimizing security vulnerabilities

If you are responsible for the development of a product that includes complex software and connectivity to the Internet, you…

Safety Software Development Process and IEC 62304 Compliance

While the need, use, or device may be disparate, safety software development has common themes across industries. IEC 62304 does…

Safety, Security and IEC 62304 Compliance

Before we begin, let’s define and disambiguate safety and security. Safety is about protecting people and equipment when a device…

Siemens among industry leaders in commercial grade Linux support for RISC-V 

Siemens’ Linux-based SokolTMFlex OS software now supports RISC-V embedded development. Based on the popular, open-source Yocto Project industry standard, SokolTMFlex…