Hypothesis: My hypothesis is that  with advancement of technology, implantable and wearable medical devices should have a clear and secure channel for communication for safe data transfer and to prevent cyber-attacks and hacking and how do we achieve that safety through controlled simulations.

Proposal Outline:

Introduction:

• Implanting Medical devices
• Wearable medical devices
• Securing communication channels of medical devices
• Research Hypothesis

Preventing medjacking:

• Unique challenges
  • Hoglund,2017
  • Cuningkin et al.,2021
  • Zhang et al,.2013
• Wireless medical devices
  • Sowjanya et al,.2020
  • Ahmed et al,.2021
•  Cybersecurity
  • Stern et al.,2019
  • Jones & Katzis, 2018

Methodology:

• Set up two simulations for device A and device B
• Coordinated  attacks on both devices
• Preliminary test: Attack both devices with no security
• Registering of preliminary test results
• Post test : Attack both devices with security in place
• Post test results

Discussion:

• Potential for future research:
  • Successfully communication of wireless medical devices in a secure way
  • Issues/problems captured during tests
  • Educating healthcare industry on security
• Weakness of research:
  • New type of attacks which were not tested
  • Cannot be tested on humans so results can be bit different
• Strength of research:
  • Securing medical devices as technology makes advancements
  • Acknowledgement that security is must for any medical device