Protecting E-healthcare Client Devices against Malware and Physical Theft

The growing adoption of electronic medical records will require that healthcare professionals and patients are able to access health information on devices such as laptops, personal computers, and even smart phones. Due to the sensitive nature of such information, it is important to secure client-side devices used in electronic healthcare systems that handle sensitive medical data. These devices can be targets of several kinds of attacks, including malware-based attacks or physical theft of devices. We present an approach and system architecture to secure client devices against such attacks.