Connected Medical Device Attack Surface Map
Every entry point a penetration tester probes on a modern connected device, firmware, debug, radio, mobile, cloud, and the clinician console.
What the diagram shows
Physical + debug
JTAG, UART, SPI flash, exposed test pads, tamper detection. Pen testers extract firmware here to find what software scanning missed.
Firmware + boot
Bootloader integrity, secure boot chain, signed update verification, rollback protection, key storage in hardware.
Radio + protocol
Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, cellular, NFC, MedRadio, proprietary RF. Eavesdropping, MITM, replay, and protocol fuzzing.
Embedded OS + apps
RTOS or embedded Linux, daemons, IPC, file system permissions, network stack. Memory-safety bugs and privilege escalation live here.
Companion mobile app
iOS / Android binary analysis, transport pinning, secure storage, deep-link abuse, instrumentation resistance.
Cloud back-end
REST/GraphQL APIs, auth tokens, IAM scope, tenant isolation, database encryption, observability blind spots.
Clinician web console
Web app pen test (OWASP Top 10), session management, role separation, audit logging, SSO integration.
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