Workshop Program and Details

SPIMD, 1 April 2011, EPFL ELA 2, Lausanne, Switzerland

IMD security introduces new issues due to the unique combination of resource constrained computation (size, cost and most importantly energy), and the critical assets of personal safety and health information.  This workshop presents a systematic approach to analyzing these challenging engineering problems by considering vulnerabilities and defense across multiple levels.

Curriculum at the university-level typically builds on a solid understanding of applied cryptography.  This workshop will take a higher level approach by providing basic abstractions of cryptographic services and primitives such as public key cryptography, block ciphers and digital signatures and use these to develop lightweight solutions to IMD security and privacy. 

Experts from Computer Security and Cryptography will present new research which shows vulnerabilities in existing IMDs and proposes solutions. Experts from Privacy Technology and Policy will discuss the societal, legal and ethical challenges surrounding IMD security as well as technological solutions that build on the latest in Computer Science privacy research as well as lightweight solutions appropriate for implementation in IMDs.

Workshop program:

8:30  Registration, Greeting
9:00
 		Welcome

Giovanni De Micheli
Professor and Director, Institute of Electrical Engineering
Director, Integrated Systems Centre
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

9:05
 		Overview of the Challenges in Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices

Wayne Burleson
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

9:15 Session 1: Overviews
  From IMD to Cloud!

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

  New concepts in Remotely-Powered Telemetry of the Human Metabolism

Sandro Carrara
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland

10:15
 		Break
10:30 Session 2: Bio-medical Technology
 

Overview of the commercially successful Implantable Glucose Sensors: Key features and requirements for Performance, Safety and Reliability
 Francesco Valgimigli
A. Menarini Diagnostics, Italy

  An Implantable Biochip to Influence Patient Outcomes Following Trauma-induced Hemorrhage

Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA

  Principles and Advantages of “In vivo Bioreactor” in Tissue Engineered Trachea Reconstruction

Qiang Tan
Shanghai Chest Hospital, China

12:00
 		Lunch
12:45 Session 3: Privacy Policy
  Privacy by Design

Ian Brown
University of Oxford University, United Kingdom

13:15 Session 4: Vulnerabilities and Solutions
  Trustworthy Medical Device Software

Kevin Fu
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA

  Towards Ultra Light-weight Solutions for IMD Security

Saied Hosseini-Khayat
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran

  On Secure Access to Medical Implants

Srdjan Capkun
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

 

Challenges in applying Physical Unclonable Functions as a basis for security in Body Area Networked devices

Jos Huisken
IMEC-NL, Eindhoven, Netherlands

15:15
 		Break
15:30
 		PANEL: How Real and Urgent are Security/Privacy Threats to IMDs?
16:30  
 		Conclusions and Next Steps

Wayne Burleson and Sandro Carrara
17:00
 		Adjourn

 

Please see links given above for talk abstracts.