The software bill of materials is emerging as a key ingredient for healthcare organizations to ensure medical device security and supply chain management.
The SBOM, a “list of ingredients that make up software components,” as defined by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, helps identify software in connected medical devices such insulin pumps and MRI machines that contain security vulnerabilities. If left unmitigated, these can be exploitable by malicious actors to disrupt care delivery.
Here’s what healthcare organizations need to know about how SBOMs fit into an…
