According to Dr. Suzanne Schwartz of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the $1.7 trillion omnibus funding plan that President Joe Biden signed into law last week includes new cybersecurity criteria for medical devices is a game changer for enhancing security inside the healthcare ecosystem. However, device manufacturers can fulfil the sufficiently low-security bar by demonstrating that they can fix and update their products. It is impossible to exaggerate the value of product patching.
Splice shields vulnerable OT equipment such as this inside an encrypted overlay network, reducing the cyber attack surface.