Medical Device Security and Privacy – MeDSec 2024

The recent growth in communication and technology has led the digitalization and interconnection of healthcare systems. Moreover, remote healthcare facilitates a unique way to support a person with special needs, suffering chronically ill, older people, disabled, and even to everyone in a pandemic situation. However, modern digitalization in healthcare domain faces security and privacy issues due to the use of traditional protocols and techniques, which are prone to cyber-attacks and risks. Majority of the research and innovation on healthcare focuses on the network rather than the security and privacy of connected medical devices. Further, the effects of cyber-attacks on healthcare services are not only restricted to data confidentiality and integrity but also, they may endanger precious lives by compromising connected medical devices. Thus, along with healthcare network security, the security and privacy of connected medical device are also the most significant interests that need careful attention from industry and academia.

The special section on MeDSec aims to recognize the medical device security and privacy challenges, increases opportunities and invites active researchers/academicians and industrial professionals to submit original articles focusing on advanced research, and state-of-the-art methodologies with theoretical background, practicability, and demos. The key technologies that boost MeDSec are the IoT, Digital Twins, AI/ML/DL, digital transformation, big data analytics, 5G and beyond, block chain, cognitive science etc whose privacy and security need to be addressed.

Supported by the International Alliance for Strengthening Cybersecurity and Privacy in Healthcare (CybAlliance) project and the Horizon Europe NEMECYS project.

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Special session chairs

Special session program committee