Cybersecurity at Siemens Healthineers
Helping you stay protected
The highest priority for hospitals is to provide exceptional patient care without interruptions, no matter what happens. Therefore, it is crucial to stay protected against cyberthreats such as viruses or ransomware that may impair operations, compromise patient data, create financial damage, and harm your overall reputation.
A holistic cybersecurity approach
We at Siemens Healthineers take a holistic approach to cybersecurity.
Secure Development Lifecycle: Guided by a central set of security requirements and product-specific threat and risk analyses, we develop our equipment1 according to internationally accepted standards and procedures. The equipment design aims to minimize attack surfaces and achieve optimal hardening of the technology stack. We continue the hardening process during deployment by applying the latest software updates. In addition to continuous validation and verification, we evaluate the security posture of our products with vulnerability scans, fuzz testing, and penetration testing.
People: Protecting medical equipment against cyberthreats is challenging and requires a company culture that values secure operations and privacy protection. We provide regular cybersecurity awareness and role-specific training for management, R&D, logistics, and service personnel.
Processes: Our company-wide processes at Siemens Healthineers provide strict guidelines for mitigating risks posed by identified threats at any point, from equipment development to service provision. These guidelines are constantly adapted and updated. Furthermore the “FDA guidance for management of cybersecurity in medical devices” has been implemented into our processes.
Keeping equipment protected
A shared culture of cybersecurity risk management
Our vigilance when it comes to cybersecurity enables us to deliver equipment that supports your efforts to shield your healthcare institution from threats, protecting your patient data and increasing cost efficiency. All equipment currently under development and a range of existing offerings1 have built-in security controls that can be adapted to your network requirements during deployment. This allows for smooth and protected operations throughout the equipment lifecycle at your site. With our continuous security update process, incident support, and the maintenance services that are available for a range of products1, we cover the vendor part of the responsibility we share when it comes to protecting the operations and data privacy of and inside your institution.
Deployment: protected right from the start
Our equipment1 ships with a range of security controls, which will be individually configured during deployment depending on the network and security requirements of your medical facility. This supports cybersecurity risk management throughout the equipment lifecycle at your institution.
Operations: custom security controls
Role-based user management allows you to customize access privileges for each user. Along with data encryption and audit trails for change control, this reduces the risk of unauthorized access and data loss or theft, and provides forensic information.
Maintenance: intelligent threat response
We keep track of newly discovered vulnerabilities, so we are able to respond to emerging threats with security updates. Incident support by our experts provides you with hands-on support in the event of a security breach, so your team can reduce further damage and help restore secure system operation.
Security publications
Siemens Healthineers Security Advisories: All current Siemens Healthineers reports of security issues and Security Advisories for validated security vulnerabilities that directly involve our products and require applying an update, performing an upgrade, or other customer action can be found at the Siemens Healthineers LifeNet customer online portal.
1We continue to improve and extend the security measures for our current products. As threats and associated risks are evolving not all statements on this page apply to all products and services. Contact your local Siemens organization for further details.