FDA RELEASES DRAFT GUIDANCE ON POSTMARKET MANAGEMENT OF CYBERSECURITY IN MEDICAL DEVICES - McDermott Will & Emery

FDA RELEASES DRAFT GUIDANCE ON POSTMARKET MANAGEMENT OF CYBERSECURITY IN MEDICAL DEVICES

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Vanessa Burrows, Jennifer Geetter, Daniel Gottlieb and Michael Ryan wrote this bylined article analyzing FDA draft guidance addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in medical devices. The authors warned that “if a device manufacturer does not take steps to remediate an uncontrolled risk that is essential to its clinical performance … the FDA will consider such devices to be in violation of the [Food Drug and Cosmetics Act] and subject to enforcement action.”