The Business Case for Cybersecurity in Medical Devices

Galen Data Medical Device Innovation Webinar Series Presents:   

The Business Case for Cybersecurity in Medical Devices

Description:  Cybersecurity breaches continue to make headlines in every industry, including healthcare. For medical device companies especially, it is never too early to consider cybersecurity. Join Vidya Murthy from Medcrypt, and Galen Data's Tim Sandberg, as they present the business case for cybersecurity and review the FDA's recent guidance update.   

Discussion Topics: 

👉 Budgeting for cybersecurity 

👉 Systemic nature of cybersecurity risk and the cost of delaying  

👉 Cybersecurity as patient safety   

About our Guests: 

Vidya Murthy has worked in security for 15 years, with emphasis on healthcare and medical devices for the last 8. As Chief Operating Officer at MedCrypt and MedISAO, Vidya has supported more than 70 device manufacturers in maturing their product cybersecurity programs. During her tenure at Becton Dickinson, she established the protected health information security program, embedded it into device operations and operationalized it for compliance and risk reduction across multiple product lines. Her direct interaction with health systems informed a global strategy for supporting medical device sales. Prior to earning her MBA from Wharton, she worked in security consulting with PricewaterhouseCoopers.  

Tim Sandberg has over 20 years of experience working in the information technology for medical device companies. Tim's area of focus has been validating COTS software for intended use within organizations, as well as managing enterprise applications both on premises and migrating them to cloud based data centers. Prior to Galen Data, Tim worked as the Director of IT and Product Software Manager for OrthoAccel Technologies and as the Senior Manager of e-Business Applications at Cyberonics (now LivaNova).