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# FDA Posts Device Development Tool on Cybersecurity
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/fda-posts-device-development-tool-on-cybersecurity/
- Published: 2020-10-20T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T16:33:12.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Devices, #legacy-id-D5147915

FDA’s Medical Device Development Tools program has listed an [agency-qualified tool ](https://www.fda.gov/media/143131/download?ref=fdaweb.com)that medical device sponsors can use in developing and evaluating medical devices that pose a cybersecurity concern. The tool is a rubric for applying a common vulnerability scoring system to medical devices. FDA says the rubric is also appearing in FDA pre-market submissions. “This seems to be a way for manufacturers to ‘justify’ in a submission the engineering approach taken for addressing a given theoretical cyber-weakness in their design,” it says.