Medical Device Security Center

A cross-disciplinary research initiative on medical device security, privacy, safety, and effectiveness

Recent Research: Featured at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

The Medical Device Security Center is a cross-disciplinary partnership between researchers at:

the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School,
the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and
the University of Washington.

Our mission is to help improve the understanding of and balance between security, privacy, safety, and effectiveness for next-generation medical and pervasive healthcare devices.

Publications

Directors

Current Ph.D. students:

Shane S. Clark (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Alexei Czeskis (University of Washington)
Benessa Defend (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Tamara Denning (University of Washington)
Daniel Halperin (University of Washington)
Karl Koscher (University of Washington)
Benjamin Ransford (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Mastooreh "Negin" Salajegheh (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Alumni:

Shane S. Clark (B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin (M.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Will Morgan (B.S., University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Students

MDSC Group Photos

Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses

Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008

Additional information: Frequently asked questions (FAQ) ; PDF of paper

	Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Benjamin Ransford, Shane S. Clark, Benessa Defend, Will Morgan, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2008 Additional information: Frequently asked questions (FAQ) ; PDF of paper
	Security and Privacy for Implantable Medical Devices Daniel Halperin, Thomas S. Heydt-Benjamin, Kevin Fu, Tadayoshi Kohno, and William H. Maisel IEEE Pervasive Computing, January 2008 Additional information: PDF of paper
	Devices That Tell On You: Privacy Trends in Consumer Ubiquitous Computing T. Scott Saponas, Jonathan Lester, Carl Hartung, Sameer Agarwal, and Tadayoshi Kohno Proceedings of the USENIX Security Symposium, August 2007 Addition information: Online here
	Secure Software Updates: Disappointments and New Challenges Anthony Bellissimo, John Burgess, and Kevin Fu Proceedings of USENIX Hot Topics in Security, July 2006 Additional information: Online here

Kevin Fu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Phone: 413-545-4006 (Office)
Email: kevinfu@cs.umass.edu
URL: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~kevinfu/
Bio: http://www.secure-medicine.org/bios.html

Tadayoshi Kohno, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington

Phone: 206-685-4853 (Office)
Email: yoshi@cs.washington.edu
URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoshi
Bio: http://www.secure-medicine.org/bios.html

William H. Maisel, M.D., M.P.H.

Director and Assistant Professor
Medical Device Safety Institute
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

Phone: 617-667-7306 (Office)
Email: wmaisel@bidmc.harvard.edu
URL: http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/sites/bidmc/Find_a_Doc/doc_detail.asp?sid=41414942494647
Bio: http://www.secure-medicine.org/bios.html

High resolution group photos of (some of the) MDSC members are available here: http://www.secure-medicine.org/photos.html.