NCCoE Asks Vendors To Help Secure Wireless Medical Devices

On January 28, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence ("NCCoE") at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") invited technology vendors "interested in working on a standards-based example solution, or reference design, to work with the center and to provide commercially available products and services as modules in the end-to-end example solution." Currently, NCCoE is developing example cybersecurity solutions to shield wireless infusion pumps delivering intravenous medication from unintentional errors or unauthorized access. In December 2015, NCCoE released a white paper discussing the challenges and potential solution requirements needed to better secure infusion pumps on an enterprise network.