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Wearable Device Security and Privacy

The document discusses the security and privacy challenges associated with wearable devices, which have become integral in various sectors such as healthcare and smart living. It outlines specific threats like malware injection, breaches in encryption, and adversarial AI attacks, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive security approach. Potential solutions include homomorphic encryption, self-adaptive AI security frameworks, and blockchain-integrated models to enhance the protection of user data and device integrity.

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Wearable Device Security and Privacy

The document discusses the security and privacy challenges associated with wearable devices, which have become integral in various sectors such as healthcare and smart living. It outlines specific threats like malware injection, breaches in encryption, and adversarial AI attacks, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive security approach. Potential solutions include homomorphic encryption, self-adaptive AI security frameworks, and blockchain-integrated models to enhance the protection of user data and device integrity.

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Promoting Cyber Security

Entrepreneurship in India

Wearable Device Security


and Privacy
Wearable Device Security and Privacy
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Security and privacy solutions for smart, connected wearable devices.

BUSINESS CONTEXT
Wearable devices have evolved into sophisticated tools that leverage advanced sensors,
real-time analytics, and seamless connectivity to enhance user experience across
healthcare, IoT, and smart living applications. These devices rely on intricate layers of
hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure to function effectively, with technologies such
as 5G, edge computing, AI, and NFC enabling real-time data exchange and decision-
making. The complexity of these systems introduces new risks, as vulnerabilities in one
layer can cascade across the ecosystem. Ensuring the security and privacy of wearable
devices requires a holistic approach that addresses hardware-level tamper resistance,
secure data transmission protocols, and resilient system architectures.

ISSUES AND THREATS


Wearable devices face challenges such as dynamic malware injection during over-the-air
firmware updates exploiting trusted execution environments; breaches in quantum-vulnerable
encryption protocols due to accelerated cryptographic cracking techniques; adversarial AI
attacks designed to corrupt machine learning models used in real-time decision-making,
leading to misclassifications or operational disruptions; hybrid communication breaches
leveraging coordinated attacks across BLE, NFC, and 5G channels to compromise multi-
layered security; side-channel attacks using acoustic cryptanalysis and electromagnetic
profiling to extract sensitive cryptographic keys; synthetic identity creation through
compromised digital twins, enabling unauthorized access to integrated systems; and logic
bomb deployment in edge-AI processing pipelines, introducing latent vulnerabilities that
activate under specific operational conditions.
POSSIBLE TARGETS INDUSTRY USE CASES
Any of the following, combination of
them, but not limited to: Homomorphic Encryption for
Secure Biometric Processing
Protecting raw biometric data during
Health monitoring devices
authentication without compromising
(e.g., ECG trackers, glucose user privacy.
monitors)
Self-Adaptive Edge AI Security
Biometric-enabled Frameworks
smartwatches and fitness Real-time detection and mitigation of
trackers adversarial AI threats directly at the
device edge.

NFC-based payment
Blockchain-Integrated Digital Twin
systems integrated into
Security Models
wearables
Immutable identity verification for
wearable digital twins to prevent
Industrial-grade wearables unauthorized manipulations.
for monitoring worker safety
Dynamic Multi-Channel Encryption
for Communications
Augmented and virtual reality
Coordinated, real-time encryption
wearables in connected across BLE, NFC, and 5G to secure
environments wearable ecosystems.

Autonomous Self-Healing Security


Protocols
AI-powered automated breach
isolation and system recovery for
wearable devices.

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