Healthcare & Medical Devices

Where a security flaw is a patient-safety question.

Connected devices and the systems that handle patient data carry risk that regulators and clinicians both take seriously, often over device lifecycles measured in years. ThreatModeler® Nexus™ brings architecture-first threat modeling to that world, so design risk is understood before a product reaches a patient and stays understood for as long as it's in the field.

Designed for safety means designed to be proven.

The healthcare reality

Long lifecycles, strict oversight, and no room to guess.

A medical device ships and then lives in the field for years, while the systems around patient data face continuous scrutiny. Both need a current model of how they're meant to work, and proof that the security was designed in.

"Premarket submissions ask us to show our threat analysis, and assembling it by hand is slow and inconsistent."
Generate the evidence from the design. The Reporting Agent produces documentation directly from the model, so the threat analysis you submit reflects the actual design rather than a hand-built reconstruction.
"A device we shipped three years ago is still in use, and the threat model, if it exists, is badly out of date."
Model what's in the field. The System Mapping Agent can infer the design from existing systems, and the Secure Design Graph grounds that picture in the device's real context, so a product already in production gets a current model.
"Our scanning catches known issues in the code, but not the safeguard the design was supposed to include."
Find what's missing. Because the model is anchored in intended design, ThreatModeler Nexus surfaces the absent control, the gap a scan of present code cannot see.
Security as a design property

From the first architecture to the last unit in service.

ThreatModeler Nexus is a threat modeling platform first: it shows what could go wrong in a system so you can design the risk out. For connected health systems and devices, that discipline holds across the full lifecycle, not just at launch.

Architecture-first

Designed in, not bolted on

Model from architecture artifacts at design time, or infer the design from an existing product, so security is part of how the system works rather than a late addition.

Current

True across the lifecycle

The Secure Design Graph keeps the model aligned with the product as it changes, so a long-lived device stays modeled rather than frozen at launch.

Provable

Submission-ready evidence

Versioning, approval workflows, and a full audit trail produce the documentation regulators and clinicians expect, with accountability recorded at each step.

Proven in the field

Results from regulated healthcare programs.

faster threat models: regulated healthcare provider with millions of members; NIST, HIPAA, and GDPR controls mapped automatically inside Jira
180+
regulatory and security frameworks, including FDA 524B, HIPAA, HITECH, EU MDR, and IEC 81001-5-1
3,500+
security requirements in the Secure Design Graph, backed by more than a decade of curated research

Source: regulated healthcare provider case study (5× faster threat models).

Regulatory coverage

Mapped to the frameworks that govern connected health.

Healthcare operates at the intersection of patient safety and data privacy regulation. ThreatModeler Nexus keeps every model mapped to the frameworks in scope for your systems: so FDA premarket submissions, HIPAA assessments, and EU regulatory dossiers are built from the threat model rather than assembled by hand after the fact.

Every control, every accepted risk, every compliance mapping traces to the architecture and carries version history, so evidence survives staff turnover and holds up in a submission review or audit.

See the Reporting Agent
FDA 524B (medical device cybersecurity). Premarket submission documentation generated from the model, with a full audit trail behind every design decision.
HIPAA and HITECH. Controls mapped to privacy and security rule requirements for EHR systems, clinical platforms, and data repositories.
IEC 81001-5-1 (health software safety). Security activities in the product lifecycle, mapped to the standard's requirements for health software and health IT systems.
EU MDR and IVDR. European medical device regulation requirements addressed at the design stage, not reconstructed at submission time.
GDPR for patient data. Data flow modeling identifies where personal health data crosses trust boundaries, so GDPR controls are placed at the design level.
NIST CSF and NIST 800-53. Standard control frameworks applied across clinical systems and infrastructure, with gaps identified before they reach production.
Connected device risk

Medical devices and IoMT need architecture-first security.

Connected medical equipment spans clinical networks, patient monitoring systems, implantables, and diagnostic devices. Each with its own protocol, lifecycle, and exposure surface. The threat model has to reflect the actual architecture, not an assumption inferred from the firmware.

From design

Model before manufacture

Start from architecture artifacts during product development. The System Mapping Agent builds the threat model from your design documents, IaC, and diagrams: before a device reaches clinical validation.

In the field

Model what's already deployed

For devices already in service, the System Mapping Agent infers the design from existing systems. The Secure Design Graph grounds that picture in context, so a long-lived device gets a current model without starting from scratch.

For the portfolio

Coverage at scale

Component reuse and templates carry proven design patterns across device families, so security analysis doesn't have to restart for each variant. One approved pattern, applied consistently.

See what could go wrong, before it does.