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

TLDR

The rapid evolution of micro‑computing, miniaturized hardware, and machine‑to‑machine communication has enabled the Internet of Medical Things to provide remote monitoring and timely diagnostics for chronic patients, yet its security remains a major challenge. This paper aims to present state‑of‑the‑art techniques for securing IoMT data during collection, transmission, and storage, and to propose a comprehensive security framework. The authors review physical and network attacks on IoMT systems and design a framework that combines multiple security techniques to address these threats. Their analysis shows that most existing security methods ignore many attack types, while the proposed framework satisfies IoMT security requirements and mitigates most known attacks.

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.