Title
From WannaCry to WannaDie: Security trade-offs and design for implantable medical devices
Abstract
Healthcare sectors are increasingly facing cyber security challenges and threats from adversaries due to numerous security flaws and the lack of security safeguards in medical devices. Among these medical devices and systems, security issues that concern implantable medical devices (IMDs) have attracted attention from both academia and the industry. In this paper, we discuss security vulnerabilities in current IMD products by presenting security tests and demonstrations performed by researchers. Based on this, three critical trade-offs in the IMD security design are analyzed, namely security vs. accessibility in medical emergencies, emergency access vs. checkup access and strong security requirements vs. limited IMD resources. Biometrics based security solutions can provide support for emergency access and thus are surveyed, including those using electrocardiogram signals, iris and fingerprints. During the design, we propose to adopt the concept of decoupled design and usable security in order to develop a viable security solution for the IMDs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ISCIT.2017.8261228
2017 17th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
security issues,IMDs,security vulnerabilities,security tests,critical trade-offs,IMD security design,medical emergencies,checkup access,security solutions,usable security,security trade-offs,healthcare sectors,cyber security challenges,security safeguards,implantable medical devices,IMD products,security requirements,WannaCry,WannaDie,emergency access,security flaws,IMD resources
Health care,USable,Wireless,Computer science,Computer security,Biomedical equipment,Computer network,Trade offs,Security design,Biometrics,Vulnerability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-6515-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guanglou Zheng1577.07
Guanghe Zhang211.72
Wencheng Yang38510.34
Craig Valli413233.90
Rajan Shankaran511315.86
Mehmet A. Orgun61366155.15