Resilience of medical devices under security attacks
Code Freeze 2023 - Breakout session

Cyber-physical devices that interact with the physical world need to tolerate cyber-attacks while maintaining their "essential performance."  A bedside infusion pump, delivering critical drugs to a patient, should not stop delivering if a DDoS attack happens on the hospital network.  This talk will speak to the requirements to maintain critical performance under attack and some of the techniques used to make this possible.  While the focus will be on security of medical devices, it will be scaled to other critical infrastructures that need resilience to cyber-attack. 

Ken Hoyme

Mr. Hoyme has nearly 40 years’ experience in the design of regulated safety-critical secure systems. He has been active in many cross-industry initiatives, including, H-ISAC’s Medical Device Security Information Sharing Council (MDSISC), AAMI’s Device Security Working Group, HSCC JCWG working groups including the development of the Joint Security Plan, Medical Device Innovation Consortium (MDIC), and the University's Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity. He is a frequent speaker at medical device security conferences as well as FDA Workshops on medical device security.

Ken recently retired from Boston Scientific, where he established a company-wide product security program, incorporating security requirements across their Quality System. Earlier as a Senior Fellow at their Cardiac Rhythm Management division he was the systems lead for the development of the LATITUDE Remote Patient Management system. As a Distinguished Scientist at Adventium Labs he performed government funded research on the intersection of safety and security for cyber-physical systems. Earlier, Ken worked at Honeywell’s Corporate Research for 18 years where he was a Senior Fellow. He was awarded Honeywell’s highest technical recognition for his work on the Boeing 777.

Ken has 40 US and 9 International patents. He received his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.