Launch HN: MedCrypt (YC W19) Medical Device Cybersecurity

📰 Hacker News · mikekij

Hi HN! We're Eric and Mike, founders of MedCrypt ( https://www.medcrypt.com ). Our mission is to make it easy for healthcare technology companies to build cybersecurity features into their products. I (Mike) was previously a product manager at a medical device company and witnessed an increasing concern about the security posture of Internet-enabled medical devices. This culminated in a couple of big device companies needing to issue recalls for their medical devices due to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. It struck me as an interesting transition from cybersecurity being a compliance requirement and instead a concern when managing patient safety. Being concerned about the lack of resources available to implement data security properly, or at all in some cases, we decided to build a platform that helps healthcare software and medical device companies properly integrate data security features into their products, while actively monitoring them for vulnerabilities and suspic

Published 11 Mar 2019
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