Cyber 4.0 and Tor Vergata University sign a Research Agreement to create an Observatory on cyber and physical vulnerabilities of medical devices.
The collaboration will focus on the evaluation, feasibility, and then testing, and eventually operation, of an Information Sharing platform capable of enabling structured, cyber threat-specific information sharing in the medical sector. Such a platform may be configured in the future as a service aimed at companies involved in DM technology development, certification, maintenance, and commercialization.
They will thus have access to information on the possible vulnerabilities of relevant DMs and will then be able to adopt “Security By Design” strategies for new devices, and implement mitigation techniques for devices already placed on the market. In addition, when fully deployed, the platform will become a tool for increasing the awareness of end users, such as hospitals, for proper and informed use of DMs.
Cyber 4.0 and the University of Tor Vergata also undertake to promote the initiative and the dissemination of the results obtained through the joint organization of dissemination events in the form of seminars, webinars, meetings with public bodies, manufacturing companies hospitals, interviews and publications on industry websites.
The agreement covers two grants to support the Observatory’s establishment activities such as state-of-the-art analysis of similar initiatives internationally and collection and classification of available public documentation.