SMART quality & compliance
How to validate an autonomous self-patching system?
In 2016, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense organized the Cyber Grand Challenge. At this event, fully, autonomous systems with no human interaction attacked each other, but also developed patches for their own vulnerabilities. This event was carried out under lab conditions (simple operating system with few system calls, no file storage, exploiting and patching only via an interface to a central adjudicator system). It gave an outlook into the future of Information Technology as a whole, mostly in IT-Security and Validation. In future, we will see cyber-attacks run completely by Artificial…
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SMART quality & compliance
Your computerized Medical Device is 5 years old, outdated and possibly evil
“With the rise of the Internet of things, one part of IT becomes more important where no one thinks about it. – Firmware” Florian Schnettelker Do you remember the hacked Hospira infusion pump in 2015, which was a big story in the news and forced a FDA product recall? A laptop with applicable software was connected to the maintenance port, which was an Ethernet Network port, of this pump and the hacker got soon access to the medical library of this pump and also the Wi-Fi credentials of internal hospital network. But how and why did this happen?…
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