Visible to the public Discriminative Pattern Mining for Runtime Security Enforcement of Cyber-Physical Point-of-Care Medical Technology

TitleDiscriminative Pattern Mining for Runtime Security Enforcement of Cyber-Physical Point-of-Care Medical Technology
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsLove, Fred, Leopold, Jennifer, McMillin, Bruce, Su, Fei
Conference Name2021 IEEE 45th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)
KeywordsCyber-physical systems, digital microfluidics, Electrodes, graph mining, Infectious diseases, information flow security, Point of care, point-of-care diagnostics, pubcrawl, Reliability engineering, resilience, Resiliency, Runtime, security, Software, System recovery
AbstractPoint-of-care diagnostics are a key technology for various safety-critical applications from providing diagnostics in developing countries lacking adequate medical infrastructure to fight infectious diseases to screening procedures for border protection. Digital microfluidics biochips are an emerging technology that are increasingly being evaluated as a viable platform for rapid diagnosis and point-of-care field deployment. In such a technology, processing errors are inherent. Cyber-physical digital biochips offer higher reliability through the inclusion of automated error recovery mechanisms that can reconfigure operations performed on the electrode array. Recent research has begun to explore security vulnerabilities of digital microfluidic systems. This paper expands previous work that exploits vulnerabilities due to implicit trust in the error recovery mechanism. In this work, a discriminative data mining approach is introduced to identify frequent bioassay operations that can be cyber-physically attested for runtime security protection.
DOI10.1109/COMPSAC51774.2021.00145
Citation Keylove_discriminative_2021