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Department of Homeland Security: Networked Medical Devices (Mobile Health) Best Practices
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 12:36
- Purchasing only those networkable medical devices which have well documented & fine-grained security features available, & which the Medical IT network engineers can configure safely on their networks
- Including in purchasing vehicles vendor support for ongoing firmware, patch, and antivirus updates where they are a suitable risk mitigation strategy
- Operating well maintained external facing firewalls, network monitoring/intrusion detection techniques, & internal network segmentation, containing the medical devices, to the extent practical
- Configuring access control lists (ACL) on these network segments so only positively authorized accounts can access them
- Establishing strict policies for the connection of any networked devices such that no access to networked resources is provided to unsecured and/or unrecognized devices
- Establishing policies to maintain, review, and audit network configurations as routine activities when the Medical IT network is changed
- Using the principle of least privilege to decide which accounts need access to specific medical device segments, rather than providing access to the whole network
- Implementing safe and effective, but legal patch and software upgrade policies for Medical IT networks which contain regulated medical devices
- Securing communications channels, particularly wireless ones, by the use of encryption and authentication at both ends of a communication channel
- Having and enforcing password policies to protect patient information
Source: United States Department of Homeland Security
Source URL: http://info.publicintelligence.net/NCCIC-MedicalDevices.pdf
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