Assistant Professor
System Security Group
Department of Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

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On Secure Access to Medical Implants

In this talk we discuss secure access to (implantable) medical devices. We show that some common IMD access control solutions do not provide strong security guarantees and we review recent proposals for secure IMD access. We explore in more detail proximity-based solutions and their possible realizations. We further discuss selected security and privacy issues that might emerge with an increasing push for interconnectivity of medical devices with personal devices (e.g., smartphones, PCs).
 

About the speaker:

Srdjan Capkun is an Assistant Professor (TT) in the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich. He received the Dipl.Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science from University of Split, Croatia (1998), and the Ph.D. degree in Communication Systems from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne) (2004). Prior to joining ETH Zurich he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Networked & Embedded Systems Laboratory (NESL), University of California Los Angeles and an Assistant Professor in the Informatics and Mathematical Modeling Department (IMM), Technical University of Denmark (DTU).