Much of the medical equipment in use today — from patient monitors to infusion pumps — can be targets for hackers, according to Kevin Fu, a Northeastern professor of electrical and computer engineering and medical cybersecurity expert.
And the threats to human lives are very real, Fu says.
Maybe we should NOT PUT LIFESAVING EQUIPMENT ON AN INTERNET CONNECTED NETWORK.
Have an internal monitoring network for a nurses station sure, but why the fuck do we need a heart monitor or infusion pump online?
Honestly these machines and the computers that connect to them should all be in networks isolated from the main hospital networks. Allow a single secure connection for them to relay data to the wider network and allow nothing in.
A data diode out would be OK. Still have to be controlling media in.
They rich special equipment won’t just the stuff for the poors will.