Citation
Michael Rushanan, Aviel D. Rubin, Colleen Swanson, Denis Foo Kune. "SoK: Security and Privacy in Implantable Medical Devices and Body Area Networks". IEEE Security and Privacy, 2014.

Abstract
Balancing security, privacy, safety, and utility is a necessity in the health care domain, in which implantable medical devices (IMDs) and body area networks (BANs) have made it possible to continuously and automatically manage and treat a number of health conditions, ranging from cardiac arrhythmia to Parkinson's disease. In this work, we provide a clear definition and overview of the problem space, categorizing relevant research results in academia with respect to threats and identifying trends, interdependencies, and directions for future research. We identify three broad research categories aimed at ensuring the security and privacy of the telemetry, software, and physiological sensing interface layers. We find that while the security of the telemetry interface has received much attention in academia, both the threat of software exploitation and the sensor interface layer deserve further attention. In addition, we identify areas of concern in current research, including common sources of confusion in utilizing the appropriate dataset in the MIT PhysioNet portal for key establishment protocols and the use of human tissue simulators; we make concrete recommendations on appropriate methods for future work.

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  Kune. <a
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  Michael Rushanan, Aviel D. Rubin, Colleen Swanson, Denis Foo
  Kune. "SoK: Security and Privacy in Implantable Medical
  Devices and Body Area Networks". <i>IEEE Security
  and Privacy</i>,  2014.

• BibTeX

  @article{RushananRubinSwansonFooKune14_SoKSecurityPrivacyInImplantableMedicalDevicesBodyArea,
      author = {Michael Rushanan and Aviel D. Rubin and Colleen
                Swanson and Denis Foo Kune},
      title = {SoK: Security and Privacy in Implantable Medical
                Devices and Body Area Networks},
      journal = {IEEE Security and Privacy},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Balancing security, privacy, safety, and utility
                is a necessity in the health care domain, in which
                implantable medical devices (IMDs) and body area
                networks (BANs) have made it possible to
                continuously and automatically manage and treat a
                number of health conditions, ranging from cardiac
                arrhythmia to Parkinson's disease. In this work,
                we provide a clear definition and overview of the
                problem space, categorizing relevant research
                results in academia with respect to threats and
                identifying trends, interdependencies, and
                directions for future research. We identify three
                broad research categories aimed at ensuring the
                security and privacy of the telemetry, software,
                and physiological sensing interface layers. We
                find that while the security of the telemetry
                interface has received much attention in academia,
                both the threat of software exploitation and the
                sensor interface layer deserve further attention.
                In addition, we identify areas of concern in
                current research, including common sources of
                confusion in utilizing the appropriate dataset in
                the MIT PhysioNet portal for key establishment
                protocols and the use of human tissue simulators;
                we make concrete recommendations on appropriate
                methods for future work.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/215.html}
  }
  

Posted by Barb Hoversten on 17 Nov 2013.