Just saying there are attacks is not enough. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 24 October 2020

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Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence technique that will protect medical devices from malicious operating instructions in a cyberattack as well as other human and system errors. Complex medical devices such as CT (computed tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) and ultrasound machines are controlled by instructions sent from a host PC. Abnormal or anomalous instructions introduce many potentially harmful threats to patients, such as radiation overexposure, manipulation of device components or functional manipulation of medical images. Threats can occur due to cyberattacks, human errors such as a technician's configuration mistake or host PC software bugs. As part of his Ph.D. research, Tom Mahler has developed a technique using artificial intelligence that analyzes the instructions sent from the PC to the physical components using a new architecture for the detection of anomalous instructions. Joining us in this week's Research Saturday to discuss his research is CBG - Cyber@Ben Gurion University's Tom Mahler. The research can be found here: A Dual-Layer Architecture for the Protection of Medical Devices from Anomalous Instructions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:25.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts
1:29.0	tracking down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:37.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:41.0	I'm researching this area for between three to four years.
1:47.0	At the beginning I started investigating the entire field of medical devices and specifically medical imaging devices.
1:54.0	That's Tom Mahler. He's a researcher at Ben-Gurian University.
1:58.0	The research we're discussing today is titled A Dual Layer Architecture for the protection of medical devices from
2:04.6	anomalous instructions. You can sense to glory.
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