Cylance’s Robert Portvliet, Technical Director of Red Team services at Cylance, is presenting at ToorCon in San Diego on Saturday, September 2 on the subject of medical device attacks. In his talk, you’ll learn about current network-connected medical devices and their many security vulnerabilities.
Robert will focus on the methodology and approach to penetration testing of modern medical devices. You’ll get an overview of the various stages of a medical device assessment, including:
- Discovery and analysis of a device’s remote and local attack surface
- Reverse engineering and exploitation of proprietary network protocols
- Vulnerability discovery in network services
- Compromising supporting systems
- Attacking common wireless protocols
- Exploitation of hardware debug interfaces and bus protocols
- Assessing proprietary wireless technologies
In Robert’s talk, you’ll hear about real world vulnerabilities that he’s discovered during medical device penetration testing assessments, including:
- Weak cryptographic implementations
- Device impersonation and data manipulation vulnerabilities in proprietary protocols
- Unauthenticated database interfaces
- Hardcoded credentials/keys and other sensitive information stored in firmware/binaries
- The susceptibility of medical devices to remote denial of service attacks
Also included in his talk will be some suggestions on how some of the most common classes of medical device vulnerabilities might be remediated by vendors, and also how hospitals and other healthcare providers can defend their medical devices in the meantime.
Robert Portvliet
Robert Portvliet is the Technical Director of Red Team services at Cylance, with over 8 years’ experience in various disciplines of penetration testing. His focus is on embedded systems and wireless penetration testing and reverse engineering. Prior to joining Cylance, he was the network security service line lead for Foundstone and taught the ‘Ultimate Hacking: Wireless’ class at BlackHat 2011-2013.
