A Bleeding Digital Heart: Identifying Residual Data Generation from Smartphone Applications Interacting with Medical Devices

Date

2019-01

Authors

Grispos, George
Glisson, William Bradley
Cooper, Peter

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Abstract

The integration of medical devices in everyday life prompts the idea that these devices will increasingly have evidential value in civil and criminal proceedings. However, the investigation of these devices presents new challenges for the digital forensics community. Previous research has shown that mobile devices provide investigators with a wealth of information. Hence, mobile devices that are used within medical environments potentially provide an avenue for investigating and analyzing digital evidence from such devices. The research contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it provides an empirical analysis of the viability of using information from smartphone applications developed to complement a medical device, as digital evidence. Second, it includes documentation on the artifacts that are potentially useful in a digital forensics investigation of smartphone applications that interact with medical devices.

Description

A paper co-authored by William Glisson that was published in the Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences in 2019

Keywords

Security and Privacy Challenges in Healthcare, Information Technology in Healthcare, Digital Forensics, Medical Devices, Medical Forensics, Residual Data, Smartphone

Citation

Grispos, G., Glisson, W., & Cooper, P. (2019). A Bleeding Digital Heart: Identifying Residual Data Generation from Smartphone Applications Interacting with Medical Devices. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, p. 4276-4285. https://doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2019.516