Author: Connected World

Medical devices, which are more complex than ever, face new security challenges. Especially since they are connected to the outside world for remote access, and monitoring, or used in home care applications. These risks increase the stakes in terms of product safety liability for manufacturers as security vulnerabilities can impact human lives. Unlike enterprise and government technology where cybersecurity has been a mainstay for years, product security is a relatively new discipline for medical device manufacturers. Meanwhile, the use of third-party software, including open-source components, and libraries, in connected devices further raises the ante, making software supply-chain security increasingly critical.…

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Could the tidal shift in EV (electric vehicle) adoption be happening now? The latest IEA (Intl. Energy Agency) report on the space, the Global EV Outlook 2022, suggests EV sales doubled in 2021 to a new record of 6.6 million, with more EVs currently being sold each week than were sold in all of 2012. IEA says even despite the global supply chain issues that have plagued industries like automotive, EV sales have continued to rise so far in 2022, with 2 million EVs sold globally in the first quarter alone. The agency says there were 16.5 million EVs on…

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