Review- My topic is over the importance of Cybersecurity in the medical field, specifically in biomedical devices such as pacemakers
JSTOR
Keywords- Biomedical Devices AND Security
Results- 3,848
Limiters- NONE
Source- Wang, B. (2017). HHS Cyber Task Force: Device Makers Treat Security As ‘Afterthought.’ InsideHealthPolicy.Com’s FDA Week, 23(18), 20–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26702151
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Keywords- Cybersecurity AND Healthcare
Results- 872
Limiters- NONE
Source- Inside Cybersecurity. (2015). Medical Institute Flags Medical Device Cybersecurity As Top 2015 Concern. InsideHealthPolicy.Com’s FDA Week, 21(1), 13–13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26696899
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Keywords- Medical Devices AND Privacy
Results- 14,107
Limiters- NONE
Source- Poudel, S. (2016). Internet of Things: Underlying Technologies, Interoperability, and Threats to Privacy and Security. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 31(2), 997–1022. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26377779
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Forsyth
Keywords- Privacy AND Healthcare
Results- 45,773
Limiters- Peer-reviewed & 2015+
Source- Allaert, F., Mazen, N., Legrand, L., & Quantin, C. (2017). The tidal waves of connected health devices with healthcare applications: Consequences on privacy and care management in European healthcare systems. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(1), 10.
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Keywords- Medical Devices AND IOT AND Security
Results- 3,066
Limiters- Peer-reviewed
Source- Yu, M., Zhuge, J., Cao, M., Shi, Z., & Jiang, L. (2020). A Survey of Security Vulnerability Analysis, Discovery, Detection, and Mitigation on IoT Devices. Future Internet, 12(2), 27.
Have we Reached Saturation?
By this point I believe we have passed saturation by a mile. Most of the search terms I can come up with lead to the same results if not the results say more or less the same things. Every once in a while I can find a source that says something new which I try to put into these posts.
Annotations
Wang, B. (2017). HHS Cyber Task Force: Device Makers Treat Security As ‘Afterthought.’ InsideHealthPolicy.Com’s FDA Week, 23(18), 20–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26702151
The HHS Cyber Task Force did a survey that questioned doctors and medical device makers about the security of their products now that they are on the IOT, and from what they can see the actual security from hackers was not a very big part in the development of these devices.
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Inside Cybersecurity. (2015). Medical Institute Flags Medical Device Cybersecurity As Top 2015 Concern. InsideHealthPolicy.Com’s FDA Week, 21(1), 13–13. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26696899
The Joshua Higgins Medical Institute performed their own independent study to find what the biggest concerns and issues were back in 2015. Looking at their findings they found that medical device security was underperforming and asked device makers to “take more responsibility”. It does not look like they got the answer they were looking for from these manufacturers and named Cybersecurity of medical devices a priority.
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Poudel, S. (2016). Internet of Things: Underlying Technologies, Interoperability, and Threats to Privacy and Security. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 31(2), 997–1022. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26377779
Internet of Things is more than likely going to be the next big advancement in information technology. Currently it is not secure enough to be using in products that could physically effect us. And with over 50 billion projected IoT devices it is going to be hard to secure them all. But as more and more medical device makers are putting IoT on their devices it will be a necessity.
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Allaert, F., Mazen, N., Legrand, L., & Quantin, C. (2017). The tidal waves of connected health devices with healthcare applications: Consequences on privacy and care management in European healthcare systems. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(1), 10.
Connected Health Devices (CHD) is a market that is growing fast and wont be able to be stopped. This is both good and bad. CHD’s are beneficial to both patient and doctor if used and secured correctly. But securing these devices is tricky as the makers of these devices are known to bypass rules when it comes to security of these devices if it is too costly.
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Yu, M., Zhuge, J., Cao, M., Shi, Z., & Jiang, L. (2020). A Survey of Security Vulnerability Analysis, Discovery, Detection, and Mitigation on IoT Devices. Future Internet, 12(2), 27.
IoT is a huge market and is growing faster and faster everyday. This also means that the exploits and vulnerabilities are growing faster and faster as well. The paper goes into detail about how manufacturers can scan for these problems and solve them before they can cause harm as well as some of the biggest current ways that your IoT device could be attacked right now.
