Cyber Security for Medical Devices (ONLINE EVENT: October 8-9, 2026)

Course overview

As cyber threats against healthcare systems continue to rise, securing medical devices has become critical to protecting patient care and maintaining trust in healthcare services. Effective cybersecurity goes beyond safety alone, it also ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems and sensitive data.

This course equips you with a practical understanding of medical device cybersecurity, the growing regulatory expectations, and the latest industry best practices. Learn how to embed state-of-the-art security into your existing development processes to deliver compliant, resilient, and secure products and solutions with confidence.

CPD Hours: 12

Course Content

Day 1
- Introduction to cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity regulatory overview
- Security by design
- Security risk management
Day 2
- Threat modeling
- Organisational requirements, shared responsibility & user documentation
- Security standards
- Further considerations

Speakers

Ben Kokx

Ben Kokx joined Philips in 2001 as a software designer before transitioning into product security and privacy leadership roles across multiple businesses and markets. Since 2013, as Director Product Security within the central Philips Product Security Office, he has been responsible for the global Philips Product Security Policy and Process Framework and has played a key role in cybersecurity-related standards and regulations. In 2023, he moved to the Regulatory Affairs department to focus more extensively on his external roles as a healthcare and IoT cybersecurity expert, contributing to public-private partnerships, industry associations, and standards development organisations.

Ben leads and actively contributes to several industry associations and standards organisations, including ISO, IEC, CEN-CENELEC, and ETSI. He is deeply involved in the development of the ISO/IEC 80001 series and ISO/IEC 81001 series healthcare cybersecurity standards.

He serves as convenor of CEN/CENELEC JTC 13 Working Groups 6, 8, and 9, focusing on the development of European harmonized cybersecurity standards supporting the RED Delegated Act and the Cyber Resilience Act. Ben is also an eHealth cybersecurity expert for ENISA and a member of the ENISA Advisory Group. In addition, he holds leadership positions within the cybersecurity working groups of MedTech Europe and COCIR, and through DITTA participates in international public-private initiatives such as the IMDRF Cybersecurity Working Group.