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.

Topics of interest comprise but are not limited to:

Self-driven secure technologies using AI and IoT for medical devices

Digital twins for enhancing medical device security and privacy

Dynamic risk assessment for connected medical devices

Security-by-design for connected medical devices

Autonomous security and service management

Resource-constrained security solution for medical devices

Blockchain-enabled self-driven and adaptive applications for medical devices

Architectures, guidelines, and standards for security medical devices

AI/ML/DL for improving medical devices security and privacy

Human-in-the-loop for medical device security and privacy

5G Sim Card security for IoT based medical devices

5G Beyond Security for medical devices

Special session chairs

Habtamu Abie,
Norwegian Computing Center (Norway)

Martin Gilje Jaatun,
SINTEF Digital (Norway)

Dusko Milojevic,
KU Leuven (Belgium)

Nikos Papadakis,
SPACE HELLAS SA R&D department (Greece)

Sandeep Pirbhulal,
Norwegian Computing Center (Norway)

Special session program committee

Shaukat Ali,
Simula Research Laboratory (Norway)

Cristina Alcaraz,
University of Malaga (Spain)

Manos Athanatos,
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)

Sabarathinam Chockalingam,
Institute for Energy Technology (Norway)

Mauro Conti,
University of Padua (Italy)

Hervé Debar
Télécom SudParis (France)

Sabine Delaitre,
BOSONIT – Sevilla (Spain)

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,
IMT (Institut Mines-Telecom) (France)

Vasileios Gkioulos,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Ilias Gkotsis,
Satways Ltd (Greece)

Dieter Gollmann,
Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)

Bjørn Axel Gran,
Institute for Energy Technology (Norway)

Siv Hilde Houmb,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Nesrine Kaaniche,
Télécom SudParis (France)

Stamatis Karnouskos,
SAP Research (Germany)

Sokratis Katsikas,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Basel Katt,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Maryline Laurent,
Télécom SudParis (France)

Wolfgang Leister,
Norwegian Computing Center (Norway)

Fabio Martinelli,
IIT-CNR (Italy)

Vasileios Mavroeidis,
University of Oslo (Norway)

Aida Omerovic,
SINTEF (Norway)

Kai Rannenberg,
Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)

Reijo Savola,
University of Jyväskylä (Finland)

Ankur Shukla,
Institute for Energy Technology (Norway)

Ali Hassan Sodhro,
Kristianstad University (Sweden)

Mohsen Toorani,
University of South-Eastern Norway (Norway)

Rita Ugarelli,
SINTEF (Norway)

Stephen Wolthusen,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Christos Xenakis,
University of Piraeus (Greece)

Shouhuai Xu,
University of Colorado Colorado Springs (USA)

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