The Handbook of Information Security for Advanced Neuroprosthetics

by Matthew E. Gladden

How does one ensure information security for a computer that is entangled with the structures and processes of a human brain - and for the human mind that is interconnected with it? The need to provide information security for neuroprostheses grows as more people utilize cochlear implants, retinal prostheses, robotic prosthetic limbs, and deep brain stimulation devices. Moreover, emerging technologies for human enhancement are expected to transform users' sensory, motor, and cognitive capacities in ways that generate new 'posthumanized' sociotechnological realities. This volume investigates these topics at both the theoretical and practical levels. It presents a cognitional security framework for protecting a device's human host as a sapient metavolitional agent, embodied embedded organism, and social and economic actor and applies a range of preventive, detective, and corrective security controls to neuroprostheses, their host-device systems, and the larger supersystems in which they operate.

324 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 2015

About the author

My research investigates the impacts of technological posthumanization on the way in which we structure organizations, social interaction, and the architecture of the spaces in which we live. Such realms include not only the physical spaces of buildings and the workplace but also cognitive, information, and experiential spaces — both ‘real’ and virtual.

Much of my work has explored the organizational and managerial implications of emerging technologies relating to social robotics, artificial general intelligence, artificial life, swarm and nanorobotics, ubiquitous computing, neural implants and neuroprosthetics, and augmented and virtual reality. I am particularly interested in the architectures of cyberspace and virtual worlds.

I generally employ qualitative approaches that attempt to synthesize methodologies from the spheres of contemporary critical and philosophical posthumanism, systems theory and cybernetics, and classical phenomenology. I both analyze ongoing developments and attempt to anticipate future dynamics of technological posthumanization.

My work has been published by The MIT Press, IOS Press, Routledge, and Ashgate and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including The International Journal of Contemporary Management, Annales: Ethics in Economic Life, Informatyka Ekonomiczna, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Creatio Fantastica. I've presented my research at more than a dozen international academic conferences in countries including the US, Poland, Denmark, and Croatia. My work has been cited in academic journals, books, doctoral dissertations, conference presentations, blogs, and other media.