With particular focus on enabling healthcare providers to understand and tackle cybersecurity challenges, Virta Laboraties Inc, spun out of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor develops technologies that detect malware on devices. The company's product, PowerGuard, connects devices to SIEMs and monitoring tools to analyze the equipmentâs power consumption for unusual behavior, spotting problems or breaches quickly without impacting the software or hardware. These malware and anomaly detection capabilties can be used on medical devices and process control systems by non-intrusively measuring the power consumption patterns of the machines being protected. The increasing reliance on commodity operating systems for modern devices has also opened the attack surface, leaving many devices vulnerable to a garden variety of malware. Virta Labs helps its customers in early detection, while avoiding interference with the functions of the devices by doing the measurements "at the wall".
