Improving Security Architecture of Internet of Medical Things: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Ever since its emergence, the concept internet of things (IoT) has been applied in many fields. In the area of medical sciences, a new concept “Internet of Medical Things” (IoMT) has been explored. IoMT establishes a connection between humans & machines and serves both of them. It has been expected that, by 2025, services of IoMT would reach the entire world. IoMT has covered a wide scope pertaining to health but unfortunately been facing many security challenges. Healthcare systems consist of sensitive and significant data, which is unorganized and noisy and needs additional power to be calculated for effective analysis & workable results. This data is worked upon for the purpose of making critical decisions. Therefore, it has become the main target of Cyber Criminals. The need of robust security and privacy (S&P) is gradually increasing as more and more devices are getting connected to the IoMT. The S&P of the IoMT has now become a great challenge, considering the utmost significance and vulnerability of the data in the healthcare industry. Lack of sufficient S&P in IoMT devices keeps the patient’ privacy at high stake. This research is intended to propose a Security Model to cope with these Security threats, attacks, issues and challenges. The proposed model has been developed by thoroughly investigating all the major security models through a detailed systematic literature review. The SLR has been conducted to explore all the security threats, security attacks, security issues and security challenges. Extensive meta-analysis has been performed for each of the defined category in order to prioritize these risks. After analyzing these risks, a comprehensive security model has been proposed. The interface has been developed in Python which is well structured, user friendly and easy to implement. The developed module not only identify and prioritize the risks but also automatically control different level of threats. The developed system also contain user intimation modules in case of any threat. This research is based on a very flexible and comprehensive model, which would be highly beneficial to future researchers who desire to work on existing models for the improvement as well as to those who wish to create new security models for IoMT.

Keywords

• Internet of Medical Things
• security
• issues
• healthcare
• privacy
• IoT