Security Scores for Medical Devices

Johannes Sametinger, Jerzy Rozenblit

2016

Abstract

Medical devices are indispensable for millions of patients worldwide. They increasingly depend on software and hardware components, and interoperate with other devices wirelessly and through the Internet. The sensitive nature of health records, the increasing interoperability of medical devices, and the fact that human well-being and life are at stake, puts medical device security at the forefront in healthcare technology. In this paper, we contrast medical devices’ safety with their security and introduce a stratification of security scores. We need such a grading to increase security awareness in the medical domain and as a guideline for designers and developers who will have to act appropriately to ensure devices’ trustworthiness and as a basis for stakeholders’ course of action when devices pose risks. We motivate and illustrate the scores by examples.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sametinger J. and Rozenblit J. (2016). Security Scores for Medical Devices . In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 533-541. DOI: 10.5220/0005838805330541

in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartmeddev16,
author={Johannes Sametinger and Jerzy Rozenblit},
title={Security Scores for Medical Devices},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={533-541},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005838805330541},
isbn={978-989-758-170-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: SmartMedDev, (BIOSTEC 2016)
TI - Security Scores for Medical Devices
SN - 978-989-758-170-0
AU - Sametinger J.
AU - Rozenblit J.
PY - 2016
SP - 533
EP - 541
DO - 10.5220/0005838805330541