Struggling to meet the FDA's cybersecurity testing requirements? We identify vulnerabilities and deliver FDA-ready reports - fast, accurate, and aligned with current guidance. We recommend white-box testing for medical devices, and so does the FDA.
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Generic penetration testing firms lack the understanding of unique device architecture, patient risks, and regulatory demands. Their reports may be thorough, but not FDA-compliant - and they almost always default to black-box only.
FDA expects testers to leverage source code, threat models, and architecture (white-box). Black-box-only engagements miss the deep flaws reviewers ask about - and lead to deficiencies.
Generic vendors miss firmware, wireless, and embedded paths unique to medical devices.
Reports without FDA-aligned structure, traceability, and evidence get rejected by reviewers.
For medical devices, both Blue Goat and the FDA recommend white-box testing. Reviewers expect testers to leverage source, firmware, and threat models - black-box alone routinely leads to deficiencies.
| Capability | Black-box | Grey-box | White-box |
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| Source code access | |||
| Firmware / binaries | |||
| Threat model & architecture | |||
| Authenticated test paths | |||
| Deep logic + business-flow flaws | |||
| Aligned with FDA expectations | |||
| Scope coverage per test-day |
Premarket guidance and consensus standards both expect testers to leverage source code, design artifacts, and threat models, not just an external view of the device.
Calls for security testing that demonstrates device resilience using design documentation, threat models, and source-level analysis, not black-box probing alone.
Requires sponsors to provide reasonable assurance that the device and related systems are cybersecure - which reviewers read as evidence-backed, white-box-informed testing.
Frames security testing as an output of threat modeling and architecture analysis. That is white-box by definition.
Postmarket monitoring and vulnerability handling assume testers have access to internals - the same access white-box pen testing uses premarket.
Every medical device penetration testing engagement ships with the artifacts FDA reviewers expect to see - traceable, complete, and aligned with current guidance.
Every medical device penetration testing engagement produces evidence aligned to the regulatory and consensus standards FDA reviewers and notified bodies expect to see - traceable, complete, and ready to drop into your ISO 13485 quality system.
Defines the SPDF, Section 524B submission package, threat modeling, SBOM, security architecture views, and cybersecurity testing every cyber device submission must include.
The consensus standard for medical device security risk management - asset, threat, vulnerability, likelihood, severity, and residual risk acceptability.
Foundational risk management standard. Cybersecurity risk is tied directly to patient-safety risk in the 14971 file.
Industrial-strength secure-development-lifecycle requirements applied to connected medical devices.
Reference methodology for planning, executing, and reporting security testing.
Our 7-phase methodology built for FDA-regulated medical devices.
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Struggling to meet the FDA's cybersecurity testing requirements? We identify vulnerabilities and deliver FDA-ready reports - fast, accurate, and aligned with current guidance. We recommend white-box testing for medical devices, and so does the FDA.
