FDA Plans Cyber Guide For Postmarket Devices, Use Of NIST Framework

FDA Wednesday (Sept. 3) announced that it is aiming to release a series of deliverable documents addressing medical device cybersecurity over the next year, including a guide for devices that are already being used in the marketplace and another to apply a federal framework of cyber standards to medical devices. The upcoming efforts are intended to build on FDA's guidance issued last year on the cybersecurity of medical devices during the design and approval process. Suzanne Schwartz, director of emergency...