Preventing Exploitation of Medical Devices using Binary Diversification

Medical devices running common binaries may pose a significant security and safety risk to a hospital’s network and patients. Attackers can leverage a single attack against many devices because these devices rely on identical binary code. Kraetonics’ Binary Diversification for Medical Devices (BINDIV-MD) compiler aims to harden binaries by producing functionally equivalent versions with varied control flow and layout in memory. If successful, these transforms will prevent cyber attacks against hardened devices and reduce the hospitals overall attack surface. 

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