DICOM Security

Abstract

In the innocent era of the 1980s, when DICOM was first introduced, no one was really concerned with networking security or data protection. Those playing Space Invaders at the time would never imagine that their own data and privacy would be invaded a decade later on a much more magnanimous scale. The sheer complexity of DICOM encoding methods has become the only DICOM data protection for nearly 20 years. However, this was hardly enough to block even the least advanced threats.