Medical Device Concerns for a Post-Quantum World

Joern Lubadel, Head of Product Security at B. Braun, on Evolving Risk Considerations Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • March 11, 2026 13 Minutes

Medical devices typically last a decade or longer, a functional lifespan that places them among the most post-quantum, cryptographically vulnerable technologies in healthcare, said Joern Lubadel, global head of product security at B. Braun, a German-based medical device and healthcare products maker.

"Medical devices are a huge investment and they can sometimes run five or even 20 years or over 25 years," Lubadel said in an interview with Information Security Media Group during the HIMSS 2026 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"These devices heavily rely on classical encryption, like RSA or ECC. The computing power and ability to update them is not as simple as a normal computer, because you can't just take all these products ...