Security For Wireless Implantable Medical Devices

Author : Xiali Hei
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461471532
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices written by Xiali Hei and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the treatment of chronic diseases, wireless Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) are commonly used to communicate with an outside programmer (reader). Such communication raises serious security concerns, such as the ability for hackers to gain access to a patient’s medical records. This brief provides an overview of such attacks and the new security challenges, defenses, design issues, modeling and performance evaluation in wireless IMDs. While studying the vulnerabilities of IMDs and corresponding security defenses, the reader will also learn the methodologies and tools for designing security schemes, modeling, security analysis, and performance evaluation, thus keeping pace with quickly-evolving wireless security research.

Author : Taha Belkhouja
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781085598422
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effective Security Schemes for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices written by Taha Belkhouja and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare remote devices are recognized as a promising technology for treating health related issues. Among them are the wireless Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs): These electronic devices are manufactured to treat, monitor, support or replace defected vital organs while being implanted in the human body. Thus, they play a critical role in healing and even saving lives. Current IMDs research trends concentrate on their medical reliability. However, deploying wireless technology in such applications without considering security measures may offer adversaries an easy way to compromise them. Many malicious attacks on these devices can directly affect the patient's health in a lethal way. Using insecure wireless channels for these devices offers adversaries easy ways to steal the patient's private data and hijack these systems. On the other hand, IMDs suffer from limited resources, such as the energy supply, processing power, and storage space. This renders security schemes a critical feature for implementation. A certain balance between security and efficiency must be attained in each IMD for a satisfactory and safe functioning. Therefore, we intend throughout our work to design effective security schemes to defend these IMDs. Our goal is to create or accommodate security approaches for the specific case of any IMD. We want to ensure for any IMD-user a high efficiency from the IMD to improve his health, while guaranteeing a safe use. Our plans are to decrease the computational complexity of security algorithms and authentication protocols to fit on any IMD. We also want to explore biometric features for better and safer use. We investigate all the possible scenarios (regular or urgent) to guarantee for the patient a reliable device.

Author : Wayne Burleson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461416744
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices written by Wayne Burleson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a systematic approach to analyzing the challenging engineering problems posed by the need for security and privacy in implantable medical devices (IMD). It describes in detail new issues termed as lightweight security, due to the associated constraints on metrics such as available power, energy, computing ability, area, execution time, and memory requirements. Coverage includes vulnerabilities and defense across multiple levels, with basic abstractions of cryptographic services and primitives such as public key cryptography, block ciphers and digital signatures. Experts from Computer Security and Cryptography present new research which shows vulnerabilities in existing IMDs and proposes solutions. Experts from Privacy Technology and Policy will discuss the societal, legal and ethical challenges surrounding IMD security as well as technological solutions that build on the latest in Computer Science privacy research, as well as lightweight solutions appropriate for implementation in IMDs.

Author : Xiali Hei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security Issues and Defense Methods for Wireless Medical Devices written by Xiali Hei and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation evaluates the design of several defense schemes for wireless medical devices to address security issues. These schemes are designed to enable efficient and effective access control of wireless medical devices in both non-emergency and emergency situations. In recent years, the range of available wireless medical devices has increased and includes cardiac pacemakers, insulin pump, defibrillators, cochlear implants, neurostimulators, and various drug delivery systems. Unfortunately, most existing wireless medical devices lack sufficient security mechanisms to protect patients from malicious attacks. Thus, with the rise in use of medical implants, security becomes a critical issue as attacks on wireless medical devices may harm patients. Security on wireless medical devices is a relatively new field, which has not been thoroughly researched yet. The authors of a lot of articles have proposed token based, certification based and proximity based schemes to address the issue. However, most of the current solutions have many limitations and cannot be widely applied. Therefore, better solutions are needed. In order to address this issue, we design a novel and multiple-layer access control framework for wireless medical devices. In a low layer level, we utilize bi-channel technology and multi-factor authentication to defend against various attacks at wireless medical devices. Our system utilizes near field communication (NFC) to do device pairing and uses the medical device's wireless radio to perform remote programming. This approach defends against most attacks because our NFC pairing scheme guarantees that the successful communication range between the programmer and wireless medical devices is less than 6cm. When the patient is in a crowded area such as on public transportation, a different person's mobile devices and the patient's medical devices may be located less than 6cm apart; we use the patient's cell phone to detect such an environment. To avoid attacks in crowded areas, we design a scheme to detect such a situation using the patient's cell phone. User involvement is used on non-implantable medical devices (IMDs) and a patient access pattern based access control (PAPAC) scheme is used on IMDs. We also design a response time based scheme to defend against fake patient attacks. Our analyses and experiments show that the protection schemes are efficient and effective. In a high layer level, we design patient infusion pattern based access control (PIPAC) scheme for wireless medical devices. Specifically, insulin pumps are most widely applied wireless medical devices. The pump parameters and doses can be adjusted by anyone with an easily obtained USB device. The hacker can deliver a lethal dose without knowing the device's serial number in advance. To address this issue, we propose a PIPAC for wireless insulin pumps. This scheme employs a supervised learning approach to learn normal patient infusion patterns in terms of the dosage amount, rate, and time of infusion, which are automatically recorded in insulin pump logs. The generated regression models are used to dynamically configure a safe infusion range for abnormal infusion identification. Our proposed algorithms are evaluated with real insulin pump logs used by several patients for up to 6 months. The experimental results demonstrate that our scheme can reliably detect a single overdose attack with a success rate up to 98\% and defend against a chronic overdose attack with a very high success rate. For IMDs in non-emergency case, the PAPAC scheme we design utilizes the patient's IMD access pattern to address resource depletion (RD) attacks. It is a novel support vector machine (SVM) based scheme. This SVM based scheme is very effective at defending against RD attacks. Our experimental results show that the average detection rate is above 90\%. For IMDs in emergency cases, we design a novel biometrics based two-level secure access control scheme that utilizes a patient's biometrics to prevent unauthorized access to the IMD. The scheme consists of two levels: level-one employs a patient's some basic biometrics and is lightweight; level-two uses a patient's customized iris data to achieve effective authentication. The experimental results show that our IMD access control scheme is very effective and has small overhead in terms of battery, CPU and memory. Thus, it is suitable for IMDs. Both the false acceptance rate (FAR) and false rejection rate (FRR) are close to zero with a suitable threshold. Protecting wireless medical devices is a very challenging task due to their extremely limited resource constraints. It is necessary to balance the overhead of security schemes and security requirements. In this dissertation, we will first discuss security vulnerabilities in wireless medical device systems. Then we will present our framework using smart phones and other technologies, such as near field communication based access control. Further, we will describe the detailed design of this framework. Finally, extensive experiments show that our schemes can achieve good performance with small overhead.

Author : Marcia Crosse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781457839917
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Devices written by Marcia Crosse and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-04 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain medical devices have become increasingly complex, and the growing use of wireless technology in these devices has raised concerns about how protected they are against information security risks that could affect their safety and effectiveness. The Food and Drug Admin. (FDA), an agency within the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), is responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of medical devices in the U.S. FDA reviews manufacturers' applications to market medical devices during its premarket review process and monitors devices, once it has approved them, through its postmarket efforts. This report (1) identifies the threats, vulnerabilities, and resulting information security risks associated with active implantable medical devices; (2) determines the extent to which FDA considered information security during its premarket review of certain devices with known vulnerabilities; and (3) determines what postmarket efforts FDA has in place to identify information security problems. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Author : Haitham Zuhair Al-Hassanieh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encryption on the Air written by Haitham Zuhair Al-Hassanieh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern implantable medical devices (IMDs) including pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators and nerve stimulators feature wireless connectivity that enables remote monitoring and post-implantation adjustment. However, recent work has demonstrated that flawed security tempers these medical benefits. In particular, an understandable lack of cryptographic mechanisms results in the IMD disclosing private data and being unable to distinguish authorized from unauthorized commands. In this thesis, we present IMD-Shield; a prototype defenses against a previously proposed suite of attacks on IMDs. IMD-Shield is an external entity that uses a new full dulpex radio design to secure transmissions to and from the IMD on the air wihtout incorporating the IMD itself. Because replacing the install base of wireless-enabled IMDs is infeasible, our system non-invasively enhances the security of unmodified IMDs. We implement and evaluate our mechanism against modern IMDs in a variety of attack scenarios and find that it effectively provides confidentiality for private data and shields the IMD from unauthorized commands.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security Risks, Low-tech User Interfaces, and Implantable Medical Devices written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portable implantable medical device systems are playing a larger role in modern health care. Increasing attention is now being given to the wireless control interface of these systems. Our position is that wireless security in portable implantable medical device systems is just a part of the overall system security, and increased attention is needed to address low-tech security issues.

Author : U.s. Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974201396
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Devices written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Certain medical devices have become increasingly complex, and the growing use of wireless technology in these devices has raised concerns about how protected they are against information security risks that could affect their safety and effectiveness. FDA, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of medical devices in the United States. FDA reviews manufacturers' applications to market medical devices during its premarket review process and monitors devices, once it has approved them, through its postmarket efforts. In this report, GAO (1) identifies the threats, vulnerabilities, and resulting information security risks associated with active implantable medical devices, (2) determines the extent to which FDA considered information security during its premarket review of certain devices with known vulnerabilities, and (3) determines what postmarket efforts FDA has in place to identify information security problems. To address these objectives, GAO reviewed relevant documents and interviewed officials from agencies, such as FDA, HHS, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Department of Homeland Security. GAO also interviewed subject-matter experts in information security. "

Author : Hei, Xiali
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799873250
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Security, Data Analytics, and Energy-Aware Solutions in the IoT written by Hei, Xiali and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet of things networks have shown promising outcomes in the provisioning of potentially critical services such as safety applications, healthcare, and manufacturing. However, there are many challenges related to the security, data analysis, and limited resources of the performed operations that require further investigation. Additional research is necessary to address the concerns and doubts of researchers and industry professionals in the Internet of Things. Security, Data Analytics, and Energy-Aware Solutions in the IoT reports novel methodologies, theories, technologies, and solutions for security and data analytics techniques and energy-aware solutions for the Internet of Things. Covering a wide range of topics such as laser attacks and personal data, it is ideal for academicians, industry professionals, researchers, instructors, and students.

Author : Nilanjan Dey
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128156376
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices written by Nilanjan Dey and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wearable and Implantable Medical Devices: Applications and Challenges, Fourth Edition highlights the new aspects of wearable and implanted sensors technology in the healthcare sector and monitoring systems. The book's contributions include several interdisciplinary domains, such as wearable sensors, implanted sensors devices, Internet-of-Things (IoT), security, real-time medical healthcare monitoring, WIBSN design and data management, encryption, and decision-support systems. Contributions emphasize several topics, including real-world applications and the design and implementation of wearable devices. This book demonstrates that this new field has a brilliant future in applied healthcare research and in healthcare monitoring systems. Includes comprehensive information on wearable and implanted device technology, wearable and implanted sensors design, WIBSN requirements, WIBSN in monitoring systems and security concepts Highlights machine learning and computing in healthcare monitoring systems based on WIBSN Includes a multidisciplinary approach to different healthcare applications and their associated challenges based on wearable and implanted technologies