Study of Wireless Security Attacks on Medical Devices

In the treatment of chronic diseases, wireless Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs) are commonly used to communicate with an outside programmer. Such communication raises serious security concerns, such as the ability for hackers to gain access to a patient's medical records. This brief provides an overview of such attacks and the new security challenges, defenses, design issues, modeling and performance evaluation in wireless IMDs. While studying the core ideas and potential vulnerabilities of IMDs, the reader will also learn and get brief introduction about threats, selection of choosing the better technologies based on the criteria for the design of security system involved with physicians and patients network, modeling, and security analysis, thus keeping pace with quickly-evolving wireless security research.