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Your computerized Medical Device is 5 years old, outdated and possibly evil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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SMART quality & compliance
Social Media and Inherent Risks in the Pharmaceutical Industry
What we understand today as “social media” has been with us for about a decade now. And the use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn, to name but a few, has been embraced by enterprises for various business purposes from the very beginning. Besides research and development, human resources, and sales, one of its major areas of application is marketing. Big companies from many sectors benefit from building strong customer relations and, thus, brand recognition by means of social media. Present Use of Social Media and its Risks While many industries like consumer goods or banking have been making extensive…
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