This is what we believe, what we promise, and the line we hold. If it sounds like you, you are already one of us.
We break devices so attackers can't break patients.
I spent three decades breaking into systems for a living. I thought I understood the stakes.
Then in 2022, six blood clots put me in a hospital bed. My life hanging on a Doppler ultrasound I had never tested. For the first time, I was not the hacker. I was the patient.
Lying in that bed, it stopped being a market. It became a promise.
I already knew it was personal. I watched a Vice President disable his own pacemaker out of fear of being killed through his own heart. I sat beside my grandmother's bed while an infusion pump did its quiet work. A pump later found to carry flaws that could have killed her.
Cheney was a headline. My grandmother was not. She was mine.
So I sold my old company and started over with one rule. Medical devices only. Nothing else. The people who break into devices for a living should be the ones standing between the device and the patient. That is who we are.
A pump pushing a dose. A monitor watching a sleeping child. A pacemaker holding a heartbeat steady. Millions of them. Connected. Trusted. Assumed to be safe.
Most of them were secured by people who never once pictured the person on the other end. That is the problem. We built a company to end it.
When the worst case is a person on a table who does not wake up, a checklist is not security. It is theater. The real measure is patient harm, and it is the one thing most of the field will not put on the page.
Read it. If you nod at every line, you are not a prospect. You are one of us.
A hacked device is not a data breach. It is a patient.
Security is designed in, never bolted on at the end.
The people guarding a life-critical device should be the best in the room, not the cheapest.
Real security is humans doing the work, not a dashboard you rent.
Compliance is the floor, never the ceiling.
"Good enough" is not a standard when a life is the variable.
The manufacturer who does this right is a hero. Our job is to create more of them.
These are the choices we make on every project. They are how you can tell whether the manifesto is real or just marketing.
Medical devices only.
We do not test websites, banks, or crypto exchanges. Every hour we work is spent on devices that touch patients.
Senior-led every time.
Every engagement is led by a practitioner who has personally shepherded a device through an FDA submission. No first-year analysts learning on your filing.
Done by hand, not by dashboard.
No platform to license, no subscription to renew. The deliverable is the work, not a portal.
Delivered in the US, UK, and Canada.
Never offshored. The people on the report are the people who did the work.
Risk measured in patient harm.
Not dollars. Not downtime. Not stolen records. If a finding cannot be tied back to a person on a table, it is not the top of our list.
Built to survive an attacker, not a review.
We would rather tell you the hard truth in a draft than have a patient discover it in production.
Not a fresh claim on a handful of submissions. More than 275, over a decade. Not one client has ever failed clearance because of security.
And we have walked away from work where the client wanted a rubber stamp instead of the truth.
For twenty years, cybersecurity grew up around banks, retailers, and cloud platforms. The worst case was a stolen credit card, a leaked spreadsheet, an angry press release. Serious, but survivable.
That world built tools, frameworks, and a whole profession around one question: how do we protect the data? The question was right for the era. It is the wrong question for a ventilator.
When those same tools, frameworks, and consultants were pointed at medical devices, the mindset came with them. Scans became checklists. Checklists became reports. Reports became compliance. And somewhere along the way, the person on the table stopped being the point.
We built Blue Goat Cyber to reject that inheritance. Not the frameworks, those still matter. The mindset. Every choice we make starts from a different question: what would this look like from the patient's side of the device?
So we put a date on ours. By 2028, help medical device teams get 1,000 devices through FDA review with zero cybersecurity-driven rejections, and teach the industry to start cybersecurity early.
The first half is the work in front of us: the submission on your desk, the device on the bench, the deficiency letter with a clock running on it.
The second half is everything we do for teams who will never hire us. Books, conference stages, podcasts, webinars, and mentoring and judging with MedTech Innovator APAC. Every team that starts security at design instead of six weeks before filing is a device we never had to rescue, and a patient who was never at risk in the first place. We would rather lose the rescue work than see it needed.
Secure the device in front of us. Teach everyone else to start early.
Read our purpose, vision, and mission →We are not the cheapest quote. We are not a portal you log into. We are not the firm that will tell your board what it wants to hear.
None of that makes those buyers wrong. It just makes us the wrong shop. We would rather you find that out on this page than a month into a project.
Every device you secure is a life you protect without ever meeting the person on the other end of it. That is the tribe we are building.
Builders who would rather hear the hard truth from us than have a patient discover it later. If that is you, you are already one of us.
No pitch deck. No discovery-call theatre. Share the artifact you are least sure about, a threat model, a security risk file, a draft cybersecurity section for your submission, and a senior practitioner will read it and reply with the gaps we see. First read is on us.
Bring us your submission, your prototype, or just the problem keeping you up at night. We will tell you the truth about where it stands.
Medical device security is patient safety.
Why we exist: so the devices people depend on can't be turned against them.
Connected medical devices that are secure by design and resilient for their entire service life.
The world we are working toward, with no end date.
By 2028, help medical device teams get 1,000 devices through FDA review with zero cybersecurity-driven rejections, and teach the industry to start cybersecurity early.
What we do daily, with a deadline: secure the devices in front of us, and through books, stages, podcasts, webinars, and mentoring, help every other team understand what cybersecurity means for their device before it costs them.
