Recent Advances in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Systems Security

TL;DR

This paper reviews security challenges in IoMT systems, analyzes potential attacks, and proposes a comprehensive security framework to mitigate these threats, enhancing the safety of healthcare IoT applications.

Contribution

It offers a detailed overview of IoMT security threats and introduces a novel integrated security framework to address multiple attack vectors.

Findings

Most existing security techniques overlook certain attack types.

The proposed framework effectively mitigates common IoMT security threats.

A comprehensive approach enhances IoMT data protection.

Abstract

The rapid evolutions in micro-computing, mini-hardware manufacturing, and machine to machine (M2M) communications have enabled novel Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to reshape many networking applications. Healthcare systems are among these applications that have been revolutionized with IoT, introducing an IoT branch known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) systems. IoMT systems allow remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. Thus, it can provide timely patients' diagnostic that can save their life in case of emergencies. However, security in these critical systems is a major challenge facing their wide utilization. In this paper, we present state-of-the-art techniques to secure IoMT systems' data during collection, transmission, and storage. We comprehensively overview IoMT systems' potential attacks, including physical and network attacks. Our findings reveal that most security techniques do not consider various types of attacks. Hence, we propose a security framework that combines several security techniques. The framework covers IoMT security requirements and can mitigate most of its known attacks.