Exec Chat: Focus On Protecting Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities That Are Exploitable, Sternum CEO Says

Sternum recently announced a partnership with Medtronic to protect its legacy devices from cybersecurity threats. Medtech Insight chatted with its CEO Natali Tshuva about how her product works.

Cybersecurity expert working on laptop to protect against hackers

Natali Tshuva, CEO of Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm Sternum, takes a different approach to cybersecurity on connected devices. Instead of focusing on all potential vulnerabilities and rushing to create patches, she says companies should be focusing on the vulnerabilities that can actually be exploited.

“The existence of a vulnerability is ever-present and inevitable,” writes Tshuva in a recent blog post. “This rings true for any kind of software

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