Cybersecurity in the medical technology system
MedTech ON AIR
MedTech Europe
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to MedTech on Air, your window into the world of medical technologies. |
| 0:08.0 | In this episode, we're diving into one of the key priorities for a digitally enabled medical technology sector, and that is cybersecurity. |
| 0:16.0 | Dive deeper into this today, we are speaking to Benjamin Meaney, senior manager of digital, software, and AI regulation at MedTech Europe. |
| 0:25.5 | My name is Stefania Cordero, and I'll be the host of the podcast today. |
| 0:31.3 | Ben, welcome to the podcast. We are so pleased to be speaking with you today for the first time on this podcast about |
| 0:38.7 | cybersecurity. Thank you so much. It's a pleasure to be here to talk about this important topic. |
| 0:44.4 | Ben, we are going to jump right in and go straight to the first question, which is how do you |
| 0:49.4 | see digital innovation influencing the medical technology industry nowadays. |
| 0:57.8 | And also, you know, I want to hear your thoughts about the most significant challenges that our sector is facing in terms of cybersecurity. |
| 1:01.8 | It's a great opening question to really frame the discussion today. |
| 1:07.1 | What we've noticed is that in recent years, particularly from 2020, is a really rapid uptake of digital tools and solutions, in part with that digitalization that we noticed, particularly as of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:23.6 | This was a rush of society to move indoors. |
| 1:26.9 | And of course, services needed to be re-evaluated towards online delivery, towards |
| 1:32.7 | e-delivery to consumers across not just the European area, but also, of course, globally. |
| 1:40.6 | What that means by extension is that you're moving from a physical space to a digital space, |
| 1:48.0 | meaning that the attack vectors in terms of malicious cyber actors changes completely. |
| 1:56.0 | So fundamentally, you no longer need to be within immediate proximity to cause harm to individuals, |
| 2:03.0 | two entities, to society. Now really, you have a whole new attack plane. So you can be a would-be |
| 2:10.8 | attacker based out of a third country, and you would be able to expose and manipulate and leverage |
| 2:17.3 | vulnerabilities that previously did not exist. This is, and you would be able to expose and manipulate and leverage vulnerabilities |
| 2:17.9 | that previously did not exist. |
| 2:20.8 | This is a wider societal issue of all things digitally connected, |
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