Cybersecurity for medical devices training unveiled
A two-day online training event slated for 8-9 May entitled ‘Cyber-Security for Medical Devices: How to Embed and Apply State-of-the-Art Security In Your Existing Processes’ has been unveiled on the ResearchAndMarkets.com online market research and educational platform.
Cybersecurity for medical devices is not just about safety, it should also protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems and data. The two-day seminar due to be held on 8-9 May 2025 will therefore address these issues and others, providing a comprehensive introduction and more detailed modules designed to provide attendees with a thorough understanding of cybersecurity. The enhanced regulatory focus on cyber threats will also be covered.
Additionally, there will be sessions in the online conference style presentation that will focus on how best to apply that cyber knowledge into existing processes and medical device design and rollouts, in order to deliver safer and more secure products and solutions, which aren’t subject to undue vulnerabilities.
A lack of such knowledge could adversely impact critical infrastructures such as the healthcare sector’s ability to provide care for the elderly, the critically injured, walking wounded, and so on.
The event is aimed at IT security and privacy specialists; risk managers; R&D, product and project managers; regulatory and quality managers; software engineers; and specifically healthcare-centric IT consultants and auditors. They can all get a certificate of completion and 12 hours of CPD credit, recognizing their continuous professional development.
The claimed benefits, and constituent parts, of the course are:
A comprehensive overview of the relevant EU, US and global regulations.
Introduction to the various healthcare security standards and their application.
Best practice advice on how to embed security by design into existing processes.
Practical advice on how to run effective threat modelling.
A better understanding of security risk management and its link to safety management.
Understanding shared responsibility and information needs.
Experienced host
The key speaker and host is Ben Kokx. He joined Philips in 2001 as a software designer and quickly moved into a new role as a product security and privacy officer, working across numerous business and market positions at the large Dutch headquartered electronics and corporate giant.
As Director of Product Security within the central Philips Product Security Office, Kokx is responsible for security related standards and regulations for the Philips Product Security Policy and Process Framework, since 2013. He is a healthcare and internet of things (IoT) hyper-connected security expert.
Kokx leads and participates in several industry associations and standard development organizations, such as the International Standards Organization ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 committee; IEC ACSEC; IEC TC62/ISO TC 215; IEC TC65; ETSI TC-Cyber and other such international bodies where the parameters for securing medical and other such devices is laid down. He is the convenor of the CEN/CENELEC JTC 13/WG 6 on product security and an ENISA e-health cybersecurity expert. Kokx also chairs the COCIR Cybersecurity focus group and, through DITTA, participates in several public-private organizations such as the IMDRF cybersecurity workgroup.
