Refining research on Medical devices and Cyber-attacks

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Search 1

Database used: Academic Search Premier

Advance keyword search: Medical devices, Cyber Security

Boolean term: And

Limiter: full Text

Search result: 50

Subject Term:

*INTERNET security
*MEDICAL equipment
*MEDICAL equipment industry
*CYBERTERRORISM

Woodward, K., & Buckley, M. B. (2015). Bringing the Cyber War to the Medical Device Battleground. Mass Torts13(2), 2–5.

This article talks about the difficulties faced by the medical equipment industry. Technology has made such advancements that even medical devices are not secure. FDA has set up a guidance for these medical equipment manufacturers on how to secure these devices before they end up in the market.

This article helps me in my research as I am trying to find out how to secure these medical devices and how can the manufacturers make sure that the communication channels between devices are safe and secure.

Search 2

Database used: JSTOR

Advance keyword search: Medical equipment, hacking, cyber-attacks

Boolean term: And, OR

Limiter: Journals, Date, Access type

Search results: 41

Subject term:

*Military studies
*Science and Technology studies
*Technology

Brantly, N. D. (2021). Homefront to Battlefield: Why the U.S. Military Should Care About Biomedical Cybersecurity. The Cyber Defense Review, 6(2), 93–110. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27021378

This article talks about securing the biomedical devices from cyber-attacks. Both the U.S. military and general public in the continental United States use these devices. The article also talks about how to safeguard these bio medical devices from intruders and attackers as they can lead to national security issues.

This article helps me in my research as this article not only talks about securing medical devices in general but also the use of these devices by the DoD and its threat to national security.

Search 3

Database used: Computer Source

Advance keyword search: Security, medical equipment, biomedical device

Boolean term: AND, OR

Limiter: Full text, Publish date

Search result: 74

Subject term:

ARTIFICIAL implants
MEDICAL equipment
MULTILAYER perceptron
MEDICAL quality control
DATA transmission systems
WIRELESS channels

Rathore, H., Fu, C., Mohamed, A., Al-Ali, A., Du, X., Guizani, M., & Yu, Z. (2020). Multi-layer security scheme for implantable medical devices. Neural Computing & Applications32(9), 4347–4360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-018-3819-0

About swyusaf

Hey everyone, my name is Syed Yusaf and I am a junior at FHSU. I am doing Bachelors of Science in Computer Networking and Telecommunications. I completed my Associates of Applied Sciences from Hutchinson Community College in Networking.

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