IoT in Healthcare: No Love, Just Heartbreak

Speaker/Bio

Lucie Mugnier currently works in IS Security at UMass Memorial Healthcare. She graduated from BU with a degree in Computer Science in May 2015. She enjoys jigsaw puzzles, baking, crocheting, and riding her motorcycle to the yarn store to try to convince herself she is not Martha Stewart.

Abstract

What can you do to manage risk from thousands of insecure devices that people depend upon on a daily basis to save or sustain life? I am currently working on a project to answer this question at UMass Memorial. For an industry that protects some of our most personal and sensitive information, healthcare is surprisingly behind in security. The Internet of Things (IoT) devices are sensory devices that provide feedback through a variety of mediums such as WiFi. Although IoT is new terminology it is not new technology to the healthcare industry which has already been flooded with such connected devices that were built before security became part of the conversation. This is not a problem that is easy for hospitals to address; they don\x92t have the man-power to assess risk, the knowledge to find the devices, or the funds to replace insecure ones. My project will provide a guideline framework for healthcare organizations to discover and assess the organization-wide health of their medical device security.

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