Healthcare cybersecurity company MedCrypt (San Diego) today announced the acquisition of Irvine, Calif.-based MedISAO, a cybersecurity information-sharing organization that works with the medical device industry.

MedCrypt is now offering MedISAO’s information-sharing analysis network for small and midsize business as well as its Cyber Protek software bill of materials (SBoM) and dependency vulnerability management tool. MedISAO’s founder, Daniel Beard, will also join the MedCrypt team in integrating and expanding the platforms.

“It can take anywhere from six months to a year for a new medical device to get its 510(k) clearance from the FDA,” said MedCrypt CEO Mike Kijewski in a news release . “Our goal is to help device manufacturers meet the requirements from the FDA’s premarket and postmarket cybersecurity guidances, and MedISAO’s information sharing organization and software bill of materials tool helps us do just that. Together, we’re helping manufacturers bring critical medical devices to market more quickly, reliably, and safely.”

In its postmarket cybersecurity guidance, the FDA encourages medical device manufacturers to participate in a vulnerability sharing organization. MedISAO is currently one of only three information-sharing and analysis organizations that was created to meet this recommendation from the FDA.

“I initially created MedISAO to help fill the information-sharing gap among smaller medical device manufacturers that were just getting started with cybersecurity. As demand for our platform grew, we realized our customers were in need of a software bill of materials tool as well, so we created Cyber Protek,” Beard said. “Joining MedCrypt will help both companies’ customers to expedite, manage and demonstrate cybersecurity compliance, increasing security and decreasing the time it takes for lifesaving devices to (get to) market. I’m thrilled to join the innovative team at MedCrypt.”

MedISAO members receive weekly vulnerability advisories, coordinated vulnerability disclosure forms, and access to a vulnerability database with custom filters. Members who purchase Cyber Protek gain access to an SBoM generation tool, can analyze for vulnerabilities that affect their device and use its medical device management platform.