The privacy and security issues surrounding the deployment and use of internet-of-things devices is nothing new. Late last year, the concern grew as distributed denial of service attacks using insecure IoT devices increased dramatically when the Mirai botnet took down Brian Krebs' website and Dyn's networks, which affected countless websites in the U.S. But for such attacks, "No place should this be more of a concern than in the modern hospital," writes Interfaith Medical Center Director of Infrastructure Christopher Frenz, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Frenz argues why health care organizations need to confront IoT security by using standards, such as the Open Web Applications Security Project standard on the secure deployment of network-enabled medical devices. 
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