Friday, March 11, 2016

Let me begin with a highly cited introductory technical paper on medical device security and privacy especially targeting implantable ones :- "Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices" - IEEE Pervasive Computing Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems 2008. 
Brief Introduction: 

  • Balance security-privacy-safety-utility with efficacy.
  • General framework for evaluating security and privacy of wireless IMDs giving design goals for the same.
  • Safety and utility goals: data access/accuracy, software update, configurability, resource efficient, multidevice coordination and device identification.
  • Security and privacy goals: authorization, availability, device software and settings, data integrity, device knowledge/presence and sensitive information privacy.
  • Tradeoffs: security versus emergency access-device resources-usability.
  • Cryptographic and energy-centric methods for providing security and privacy at low cost without diminishing the efficacy of IMD functionality.


                                

1 comment:

  1. Good overview. Has anything changed since 2008? I assume tech is better, but maybe auditing has improved as well (being able to monitor access).

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