Veronica Schmitt started to wear an implantable cardiac device when she was 19. A few years ago, although the small defibrillator appeared to be working properly, she felt sick. "I kept passing out, and I went to a hospital, and once they had to resuscitate me," she says. "That was not supposed to happen."
Her doctor pulled out the data the device was logging and said that everything was alright. She shouldn't worry—maybe it's just stress.
[ Learn 12 tips for effectively presenting cybersecurity to the board and 6 steps for building a robust incident response plan. | Sign up for CSO newsletters. ]Schmitt, who is now in her early 30s, has always been passionate about technology, so she didn't buy into this. Instead, she looked at her other device that logged health data, her smartwatch, pulling out XMLs and doing data analysis. She proved that the two gadgets showed contradictory information and asked her doctor to prescribe her additional medical tests.
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