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Exploiting timing and cache leakage allows adversaries to extract credentials and issue cryptographically valid commands with physiologically unsafe parameters, a systemic weakness we define as the verified attacker problem. This work introduces a dual-layer physiological and side-channel defense architecture that maintains patient safety even under credential compromise. At the perception layer, single-lead 1D electrocardiogram (ECG) telemetry is restored using a 1D Denoising Autoencoder (1D-DAE) to counteract hardware perturbation proxies: actuation jitter, cache eviction block erasures, and password verification timing interference. The 1D-DAE maintains high signal reconstruction fidelity (PSNR\u224829.1\u201336.7dB, SSIM\u22480.81\u20130.89), stabilizing diagnostic classification accuracy above 90% across all perturbation conditions. At the actuation layer, a Control Barrier Function (CBF) filter enforces physical safe-set invariance, instantly projecting a malicious pacing command injection (ureq=300BPM) down to a safe 140BPM bound using real-time Quadratic Programming (QP). Hardware profiling yields an end-to-end execution latency of 2.09ms and a low 7.2mJ energy footprint per cycle, confirming real-time feasibility for continuous 360Hz telemetry monitoring and safe closed-loop pacing.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s26195987","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,22]],"date-time":"2026-09-22T10:21:48Z","timestamp":1790072508000},"page":"5987","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Resilient Control Under Side-Channel Compromise for IoMT Devices"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8246-9221","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mordecai Opoku","family":"Ohemeng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"},{"role":"conceptualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"methodology","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"software","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"validation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"formal-analysis","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"investigation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"resources","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"data-curation","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-original-draft","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"writing-review-editing","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"visualization","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"supervision","vocabulary":"credit"},{"role":"project-administration","vocabulary":"credit"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1241-2750","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Frederick T.","family":"Sheldon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"24088","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-025-09727-z","article-title":"Enhancing remote patient monitoring with AI-driven IoMT and cloud computing technologies","volume":"15","author":"Damera","year":"2025","journal-title":"Sci. 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