Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center
Member-driven nonprofit that operates the trusted sharing community for cyber and physical threat intelligence across the healthcare sector.
Definition
Health-ISAC (Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center) is a global, nonprofit, member-driven organization that serves as the trusted threat intelligence sharing community for healthcare and public health (HPH) sector members, hospitals, payers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotech, and medical device manufacturers. H-ISAC operates a Threat Operations Center (TOC), runs the Medical Device Security Information Sharing Council (MDSISC), publishes the Annual Threat Report, hosts a Member Exchange of indicators of compromise (IoCs) in STIX/TAXII, and coordinates incident response across members during active campaigns.What this means in practice
Health-ISAC membership and MDSISC participation can support operational information sharing and coordinated disclosure. They do not replace a manufacturer vulnerability-response program, and FDA does not mandate Health-ISAC membership.Examples
- Illustrative: A MedTech manufacturer proactively shared intelligence about a newly discovered vulnerability in a medical device component with H-ISAC, enabling other members to assess their own products and systems for similar risks.
- Illustrative: During a widespread ransomware attack targeting the healthcare sector, H-ISAC rapidly disseminated indicators of compromise and mitigation strategies to its members, helping hospitals and clinics strengthen their defenses in real time.
- Illustrative: A hospital's cybersecurity team utilized the threat intelligence shared through H-ISAC to update their security protocols, protecting sensitive patient data from emerging threats identified by the community.
- •Joining for branding rather than operationally consuming and contributing intel, the value is in the bidirectional flow.
- •Confusing H-ISAC with HSCC, HSCC is the Health Sector Coordinating Council (policy/standards), H-ISAC is operational threat sharing.
- •Assuming H-ISAC replaces internal CVD, coordinated disclosure with H-ISAC accelerates sector-wide notification but doesn't substitute for your own program.
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· Hand-selected related conceptsA documented process for receiving, triaging, and responsibly disclosing security vulnerabilities reported by external researchers.
An industry-developed reference framework from the Healthcare Sector Coordinating Council for end-to-end MedTech cybersecurity.
CISA's official vulnerability advisories for medical devices, the public record of disclosed device cybersecurity issues, indexed as ICSMA-YY-DDD-NN.
The bundle of cybersecurity artifacts a sponsor includes in a 510(k), De Novo, PMA, or HDE submission for a cyber device.
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· Same categoryAAMI/ANSI standard establishing requirements for medical-device cybersecurity activities throughout the lifecycle.
AAMI Technical Information Report providing MedTech-specific guidance on cybersecurity risk management.
AAMI Technical Information Report on post-market security risk management for medical device manufacturers, the operational companion to TIR57.
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Health-ISAC provides sector information sharing and a Medical Device Security Information Sharing Council.
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- 1Health-ISACTier 4 VerifiedHealth-ISACh-isac.org
- 2MDCG Cybersecurity GuidanceTier 2 VerifiedMDCGhealth.ec.europa.eu
- 3HSCC - Health Sector Coordinating CouncilTier 4 VerifiedHSCChealthsectorcouncil.org
- 4Health-ISAC medical device securityTier 4 UncheckedHealth-ISAChealth-isac.org
- 5Health-ISAC working groupsTier 4 UncheckedHealth-ISAChealth-isac.org
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