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Legacy Cybersecurity Strategy

Long Product Lives. Changing Cybersecurity Threats.

Medical devices can remain clinically useful for decades, even as their underlying technology becomes increasingly difficult to secure.

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Unsupported operating systems, aging software components, limited update capabilities, and incomplete security documentation create challenges for manufacturers responsible for maintaining legacy products. But not every device presents the same level of risk—or requires the same response.

 

An effective legacy cybersecurity strategy starts by understanding what you have, where the risks lie, and which products need attention first.

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A Strategy Built Around Your Portfolio

 

A widely deployed, network-connected device running unsupported software may require a very different cybersecurity strategy than a low-connectivity product approaching retirement.

MedSec's risk-based approach helps manufacturers make those distinctions deliberately.

Rather than requiring exhaustive assessments across an entire portfolio from the outset, we help identify where deeper analysis and investment are warranted.

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The result is a strategy based on risk and supportability—not simply product age.

A Phased Approach to Legacy Cybersecurity

MedSec helps manufacturers move from portfolio-level understanding to product-specific decisions and practical implementation.

PHASE 0

Portfolio Triage & Baseline

Know what you have. Understand where to focus.

MedSec evaluates product inventories, lifecycle status, installed base, available documentation, known support limitations, and relevant business and regulatory considerations.

 

Key deliverables:

  • Assessment summary

  • Prioritization matrix

  • Documentation gap analysis

  • Recommendations for detailed review

PHASE 1

Product-Specific Security Assessment & Support Planning

Understand the risks. Define realistic options.

For prioritized products, MedSec evaluates architecture, security controls, software components, vulnerability exposure, and potential impacts to determine feasible remediation and support requirements.

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Key deliverables:

  • Security assessment

  • Vulnerability findings

  • Support matrix

  • Implementation roadmap

PHASE 2

Implementation & Ongoing Cybersecurity Support

Turn your strategy into action.

MedSec helps manufacturers execute prioritized support plans through flexible engagement models, from hands-on implementation to targeted advisory assistance.

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Support may include vulnerability management, remediation planning and execution, compensating control evaluation, cybersecurity documentation, and ongoing risk monitoring.

Know Your Portfolio. Prioritize Your Risk.

Not every legacy medical device requires the same level of cybersecurity investment. MedSec helps manufacturers assess aging portfolios, identify products that warrant deeper review, and develop practical support strategies based on risk, feasibility, and available resources.

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