How Medical Device Cyber Challenges Could Become Easier

Phil Englert of Health-ISAC on Promising Developments Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • March 12, 2026 15 Minutes

Medical device cybersecurity challenges are among the most complex for manufacturers and healthcare delivery organizations, but there are some promising developments underway that could help ease the pain, said Phil Englert, vice president of medical devices at the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

"As manufacturers are becoming more comfortable in sharing software bills of materials, and hospitals and healthcare systems know what components are in their medical devices, when things like SweynTooth come out, they can then scan their asset and sub-asset management systems and identify which devices may have this component," Englert said in an interview with Information Security Media Group during the HIMSS 2026 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Under U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations that went into effect ...