A hacked medical device is not a data breach. It is a patient.
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 was the hacker. Then I was the patient.
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.
Right now, a device is keeping someone alive.
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.
The industry learned to secure data. It never learned to secure people.
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?
What we believe.
Read it. If you nod at every line, you are not a prospect. You are one of us.
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We believe
A hacked device is not a data breach. It is a patient.
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We believe
Security is designed in, never bolted on at the end.
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We believe
The people guarding a life-critical device should be the best in the room, not the cheapest.
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Real security is humans doing the work, not a dashboard you rent.
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Compliance is the floor, never the ceiling.
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"Good enough" is not a standard when a life is the variable.
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The manufacturer who does this right is a hero. Our job is to create more of them.
Six commitments. Every engagement. No exceptions.
These are the choices we make on every project. They are how you can tell whether the manifesto is real or just marketing.
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We commit
Medical devices only.
We do not test websites, banks, or crypto exchanges. Every hour we work is spent on devices that touch patients.
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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.
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Done by hand, not by dashboard.
No platform to license, no subscription to renew. The deliverable is the work, not a portal.
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Delivered in the US, UK, and Canada.
Never offshored. The people on the report are the people who did the work.
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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.
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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.
- We work on medical devices, and only medical devices.
- Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner who has shepherded a device through the FDA.
- We deliver the work by hand — no rented dashboard, no subscription portal.
- The people on the report are the people who did the work. Never offshored.
- We measure risk in patient harm first, everything else second.
- 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 250, over a decade. Not one client has ever failed clearance because of security.
And since 2022, we have walked away from seven engagements where the client wanted a rubber stamp instead of the truth.
If you want a checkbox vendor, we are not it.
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.
- If your goal is a PDF that says "pass" so procurement can close a ticket, we will not be a fit.
- If you need a scan tool with a login and no humans behind it, there are cheaper places to buy that.
- If you want a partner who will soften findings to protect a launch date, we will politely decline.
- If your program treats security as marketing copy for a data sheet, this will not feel comfortable.
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.
If you build medical devices, you are not just a client. You are an ally.
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.
Send us your threat model. We will tell you what is missing.
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.
Build a device you would stake a life on.
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.