1/20-21/16 FDA Medical Device Cybersecurity Workshop

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is conducting a Moving Forward: Collaborative Approaches to Medical Device Cybersecurity workshop, at the FDA White Oak campus in Silver Spring, MD, on 20-21 January 2016.  This free public workshop is being conducted in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and National Health Information Sharing Analysis Center (NH-ISAC) “to highlight past collaborative efforts, increase awareness of existing maturity models (i.e. frameworks leveraged for benchmarking an organization’s processes) which are used to evaluate cybersecurity status, standards, and tools in development, and to engage the multi-stakeholder community in focused discussions on unresolved gaps and challenges that have hampered progress in advancing medical device cybersecurity.”  The NH-ISAC is a nonprofit private health sector-led organization “advancing national healthcare and public health critical infrastructure resilience – all hazards (cyber and physical security intelligence situational awareness analysis and reporting, secure trusted two-way information sharing, countermeasure solutions, incident response, leading practice and education.”  Free registrations for the workshop will be taken on a first-come, first-served basis until 4pm, 1/13/16.  The workshop will also be webcast, and the webcast link will be made available after 1/13/16.  For additional information on FDA medical device cybersecurity activities, visit this page: http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/DigitalHealth/ucm373213.htm