Medical Device Security and Privacy – MeDSec 2025

The world-wide growth in information and communication technology has also affected the medical sector, causing healthcare to be digitized and interconnected. Moreover, remote healthcare offers new ways of supporting individuals with special needs, those with chronic illnesses, the elderly, people with disabilities, and even the general public in pandemic scenarios. Modern digitalization in the healthcare domain faces security and privacy issues due to the use of traditional protocols and techniques, which are prone to cyber-attacks and risks. The majority of research and innovation on healthcare focuses on the network rather than the medical devices’ security and privacy. Further, the effects of cyber-attacks on healthcare services are not only restricted to data confidentiality and integrity, but may also endanger life and wellbeing of patients by compromising medical devices. Thus, along with healthcare network security, medical device security and privacy are also of critical importance, requiring careful attention from both the industry and academia.

This special session aims to recognize the medical device security and privacy challenges and increased opportunities, and invites active researchers and industrial professionals to submit original articles focusing on advanced research and state-of-the-art methodologies with theoretical background and practicability. The key technologies that boost MeDSec include IoT, Digital Twins, AI/ML/DL, digital transformation, big data analytics, 5G and beyond, blockchain, and cognitive science.

MeDSec is supported by the International Alliance for Strengthening Cybersecurity and Privacy in Healthcare (CybAlliance) project, the Horizon Europe SEPTON project, the Horizon Europe CYLCOMED project, and the Horizon Europe NEMECYS project.

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