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Armatyr is live — a new medical device cybersecurity consultancy built to help manufacturers secure their devices by design, backed by over a decade of combined academic and industry experience....

Armatyr co-founder Dr. Michael Rushanan has received the 2026 Joel Dean Excellence in Teaching Award from the Johns Hopkins Department of Computer Science.

Kaixin Du, Dibyajyoti Nath, Ramit Saraswat, Zhicheng Sun, Michael Rushanan, and Tushar M. Jois. "A Hands-On Platform for Medical Device Security Education." ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, 2026.

Armatyr co-founder Dr. Michael Rushanan is directing the Health and Medical Security (HMS) Lab at Johns Hopkins University, continuing its work on security vulnerabilities affecting health systems and medical devices....

Michael Rushanan. "If They Can Touch It, They Own It: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Medical Device Cybersecurity." Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium Enigma Track, 2026.

The authors propose a zero-knowledge approach that lets a medical device manufacturer prove an SBOM meets a regulator's requirements without disclosing the underlying component details. Building on their own prior...

The authors study the tension between publishing SBOMs for transparency and the risk that the same documents give attackers a ready-made map of a healthcare system's exploitable software components. Using...

The authors examine the gap between an SBOM that satisfies FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance on paper and one that is actually complete enough to support real vulnerability response. Using an...

Dr. Michael Rushanan presented "Building Medical Devices With Security by Design" at DC Systems 007.

The Johns Hopkins Hub featured Dr. Michael Rushanan's Medical Device Cybersecurity class.