Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Third International Conference, MobiHealth 2012, Paris, France, November 21-23, 2012, Revised Selected Papers

Research Article

Securing Legacy Mobile Medical Devices

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_19,
        author={Vahab Pournaghshband and Majid Sarrafzadeh and Peter Reiher},
        title={Securing Legacy Mobile Medical Devices},
        proceedings={Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare. Third International Conference, MobiHealth 2012, Paris, France, November 21-23, 2012, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={MOBIHEALTH},
        year={2013},
        month={4},
        keywords={medical device security man-in-the-middle attack},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_19}
    }
    
  • Vahab Pournaghshband
    Majid Sarrafzadeh
    Peter Reiher
    Year: 2013
    Securing Legacy Mobile Medical Devices
    MOBIHEALTH
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37893-5_19
Vahab Pournaghshband1,*, Majid Sarrafzadeh1,*, Peter Reiher1,*
  • 1: University of California
*Contact email: vahab@cs.ucla.edu, majid@cs.ucla.edu, reiher@cs.ucla.edu

Abstract

Millions of people use mobile medical devices—more every day. But our understanding of device security and privacy for such devices is incomplete. Man-in-the-middle attacks can be performed on typical Bluetooth-enabled mobile medical devices, compromising the privacy and safety of patients. In response, we developed the , a portable device to improve security for mobile medical systems. This device requires no changes to either the medical device or its monitoring software, and offers protection for millions of existing devices. We evaluate our defense mechanism to show that it adds insignificant overhead and analyze its robustness against various attacks.