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A valid fear every webmaster faces is the defacement of their site. According to the Computer Security Institute (CSI), 2005 Computer Crime and Security Survey, web site defa

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

cements are the “fastest-growing” area of incident. A check of Zone-H.org seems to validate the finding with a display of over 750 sites defacement for a single date (8/15/200

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

).

To address defacements, it is first important to understand how defacements occur and what can be done to prevent them. Generally, sites can be vulnerable due to undisclo

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ed vulnerabilities in vendor software, a missing security patch, misconfiguration, and/or bad site programming. Any of these vulnerabilities could permit an attacker to gain

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

ccess that would allow defacement.

While not much can be done concerning undisclosed vendor vulnerabilities, the other causes are correctable. When vendor security patches a

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

e released, install them quickly. When patches are released, many attackers are reverse engineering the patch to discover the vulnerability being addressed. It is not uncommon

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

to find exploit code published on the internet within 48 hours of a patch’s release.

Verify your server and site configurations. Specific areas of concern are normally FTP up

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

oad rights, site publishing rights, server login privileges, open ports and passwords. Delete or seriously restrict the ability of people to anonymously upload files. Check

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

or the use of default passwords and for ones that can be easily guessed. Double check your systems open ports and the publishing rights of your web server software. Numerous c

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

mpanies offer free products or free initial vulnerability scans that can confirm your system settings. Using the search engine term “free vulnerability scanning” will yield do

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ens of companies and products.

Check your site code to verify errors and unintended data are being dealt with correctly. Regardless of what a visitor does, input should be v

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

lidated and all errors should return a graceful message. A few areas to check: are your pages vulnerable to buffer overruns due to incorrect data being entered; are your page

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

vulnerable to SQL or scripting code injection; does your error messages reveal sensitive information such as connection strings, passwords, or system information?

Establish

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

schedule and process to monitor system changes, configurations, and code. While researching this article, I noticed a Zone-H posting that a Microsoft United Kingdom site was

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

defaced. While the attacker did not publish how the attack was executed, it is safe to assume configuration played a large role. Software features change with each patch app

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

ied, mistakes happen and code changes.

The CSI report points out that the dollar losses caused by web site defacements are actually very low in relation to losses suffered by

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

viruses and the theft of proprietary information. The report goes on to state that “losses (such as the lost future sales due to negative media coverage following a breach)”

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

ere not largely represented in the cost figures. I believe that most victims of site defacements will agree that embarrassment far outweighs the dollar loss suffered.

When c

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

nsidering defacement strategies, web site monitoring services should also be considered. Many monitoring services offer the ability to check for the existence of keywords or

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

age changes. While monitoring services will not prevent defacements, site monitoring will at least alert you of the event. Hopefully, before you suffer negative media coverage

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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