Password911: Authentication Adventures in Healthcare

Presented at BSidesLV 2023, Aug. 8, 2023, 5 p.m. (45 minutes).

Healthcare is a tricky field when it comes to cyber security. It's a bad day if your anesthesiologist gets locked out of their account mid-surgery. Likewise, when you have a medical emergency halfway around the world you might not be in any condition to give local caregivers authentication credentials. This talk will cover some of the challenges with providing authentication in clinical settings as well as current approaches to tackling this issue.

Presenters:

  • Matt Weir
    Dr. Matt Weir is a principal cyber security researcher at MITRE. He was one of the lead authors of the Playbook for Threat Modeling Medical Devices and is and is an active contributor to the Biohacking Village at the Defcon security conference. Outside of a clinical setting, Dr. Weir has been awarded the test of time award by the IEEE Security and Privacy Conference for his work developing new models to improve password security.

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