there is a network, there are network security risks. With the increase of medical devices connected to the Internet, the risk of network security is also rising, it has become a major issue in the field of network security.

In the past few years, cyber attacks have been on the rise. According to statistics, at present, there will be a hacker attack in 39 seconds on average in the world, medical equipment has become an important target of hacker attacks.

With more more medical devices using wireless communication technology, medical devices are in a very dangerous situation. These wireless signals are easily intercepted, jammed, hijacked reprogrammed. Once this happens, these life-saving medical devices will become body bombs.

In 2017, the FDA recalled 465000 pacemakers Abbott due to security vulnerabilities. In March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a warning that Medtronic's implantable heart devices are vulnerable to cyber security attacks, mainly because they use unencrypted signals.

By 2020, according to Gartner, 25% of healthcare attacks will come Internet of things devices. Sans reported that about 17% of network attacks in hospitals come medical terminals, 77% of hospitals said that the safety of medical equipment is their most concern.

The network security of medical equipment has become one of the important problems to be solved urgently in the medical Internet of things. It is gratifying that more more large-scale technology companies medical start-ups are trying to find more secure medical equipment solutions through the development integration of artificial intelligence, Internet of things, blockchain other technologies. Of course, these solutions are only used in the medical industry, but also in industries, energy, public utilities other industries.

1. Cylera, an AI based network security platform for medical devices

Cylera, a New York start-up company founded in 2017, is an AI based Internet of things medical equipment network security company. The mission of the company is to protect medical institutions patients other people's malicious harm. Through the company's unique patented technology, medcommand platform provides users with a patient-centered healthcare Internet of things security solution to realize intelligent management operation of medical equipment, continuously provide risk analysis, actively strengthen Real-time Threat prevention.

At present, the company has obtained US $5.5 million in financing, Samsung next has also participated in the investment of the company.

2. Agent free Internet of things security solution armis security

Founded in 2015, Silicon Valley start-up armis security provides users with an agent-free Internet of things security solution that allows enterprises to view control any device network in real time.

Through monitoring all devices in the wireless environment, analyzing their behaviors, automatically identifying threats before devices connect to the network, the armis platform can control the allowed connections check the traffic to ensure the safety of devices.

In addition, the platform can automatically disconnect isolate any suspicious malicious hardware without overwriting any existing access control policies in the network.

The company's solutions are applicable to various consumer electronics, HVAC systems, industrial medical equipment, digital voice assistant, VOIP phone, etc. It is reported that armis is currently monitoring 46 million devices around the world has reached cooperation with more than a quarter of the fortune 100 companies.

In April this year, the company obtained a round C financing of 65 million US dollars led by Sequoia Capital, with a total financing of 112 million US dollars.

3. Senrio: Internet of things security platform based on adaptive algorithm

Senrio, a Portland, Oregon based start-up, was founded in 2015 to provide customers with automated analysis based on adaptive algorithms device specific behavior.

The platform can identify, classify monitor all embedded devices in the network in real time, generate visual dynamic records of all identified network devices in the customer IT environment.

At present, the company has provided network security services for Samsung, Google, HP blackberry, Comcast xfinity the national security administration.

4. Medical device data security as a service medcrypt

Medcrypt, a California start-up, was founded in 2016 to provide users with data security as a service for medical devices.

medical imaging devices to surgical robots, to implantable devices such as pacemakers, medcrypt aims to ensure that medical devices can only listen to instructions reliable sources through data encryption, signature verification behavior monitoring.

In May this year, the company obtained a round of financing of 5.3 million US dollars led by section 32, now has accumulated 8.4 million US dollars.

5. Internet of things security platform cybeats the inside out

Founded in 2016, cybeats, a Canadian Ontario start-up, provides network security firmware life cycle management services for the Internet of things industry.

The company's platform adopts the way of " inside to outside" to carry out network security prevention. By implanting "micro agent" in the Internet of things environment, it can make up for the deficiency of existing medical equipment software hardware. The micro agent can detect prevent the threats found in the firmware immediately, thus reducing the downtime of the system under attack.

Cybeats has developed a "dynamic model for building maintaining health device behavior" to detect abnormal behavior rather than relying on external threat vulnerability databases.

Cybeats' SaaS cloud ecosystem can analyze the data of infected devices provide customers IT professionals with complete diagnosis treatment plans for threats, thus saving time cost.

In December 2018, the company completed the $3 million investment led by ripple ventures