Arxan to Provide Medical Device Security Best Practices at NH-ISAC Fall Summit


SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Nov. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Arxan Technologies, the trusted provider of application protection and management solutions, will share key security strategies for connected medical devices during the NH-ISAC Cyber Rodeo Fall Summit November 28-30 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Paul Dant, Security Solutions Architect for Arxan Technologies, will discuss pervasive security issues that affect Class II and Class III medical devices, as well as the anatomy and risks of an attack against a patient in a hospital. He will review common threat model characteristics of connected medical devices and the applications that connect to them, and identify effective solutions to evaluate and better protect against the inherent risks of the connected healthcare ecosystem.

Details At-A-Glance:

  • What: It’s Personal: Attacks on Patient Lives
  • When: Wednesday, Nov. 29 @ 3:50-4:20PM PT
  • Where: Fairmont Scottsdale Princess in Scottsdale, Arizona - Moor 1
  • Who: Paul Dant, Security Solutions Architect for Arxan Technologies

Arxan, a sponsor for the NH-ISAC event, is the creator of patented, multi-layered application protection for the embedded software on mobile devices and the mobile apps that connect to them, preventing attacks, tampering, reverse-engineering and IP theft.  In addition, the company’s analytics and threat intelligence capabilities help customers understand and protect against evolving application attacks and its global threat organization monitors for potential attacks and provides emergency response, as needed.  Arxan is the only application protection solution that is ISO 13485 certified and is in compliance with FDA QSR 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 14971 and IEC 62304.

NH-ISAC is a trusted community of critical infrastructure owners and operators within the Health Care and Public Health sector (HPH). The community is primarily focused on sharing timely, actionable and relevant information, including intelligence on threats, incidents and vulnerabilities. NH-ISAC is recognized nationally within the US as the ISAC for the nation’s Health Care and Public Health critical infrastructure sector, by the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the National Council of ISACs. The National Council of ISAC’s provides framework for cross sector interaction amongst ISAC’s as well as private and public sector security entities.

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About Arxan Technologies
Arxan, the global trusted leader of application protection solutions, delivers the confidence to build, deploy, and manage an organization’s most innovative and valuable applications. Currently protecting more than 1 billion application instances across industries including financial services, mobile payments, healthcare, automotive, gaming, and entertainment, the company provides the industry’s most comprehensive application protection solution. Unlike legacy security providers that rely on perimeter-based barriers to keep bad actors out, Arxan protects applications at the source and binary code level to expand the area of trust and provides a broad range of enterprise services and patented security capabilities such as code hardening, obfuscation, encryption, and whitebox cryptography. Founded in 2001, the company is headquartered in North America with global offices in EMEA and APAC. For more information, please visit www.arxan.com or follow @Arxan on Twitter.

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