The Role of IOT and Cyber Warfare in Developing the Health Care Devices

Abstract

The healthcare system of today is considered to be one of the most vulnerable systems to cyber-attacks. It is because the healthcare system handles sensitive data like payments, the history of a patient as well as private patient information, and the list goes on. When it comes to cyberattacks, healthcare systems cause significant harm to both organizations and patients. Due to the increased demands for high-quality healthcare and the increasing cost of care, ubiquitous healthcare is seen as a technology-based solution to tackle global health problems. Particularly, the recent advancements in the field of the Internet of Things have led to the creation of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Although these inexpensive and widespread sensing devices could transform reactive healthcare into preventative the privacy and security concerns associated with these devices are often ignored. Since medical devices collect and process extremely sensitive personal health information these devices as well as their connected communications must be extremely secure to safeguard the privacy of the patient. However, the miniature IoMT devices are very limited in computing power and a few security options are available within these devices. Furthermore, with the wide usage of IoMT devices managing and ensuring security of IoMT devices is extremely challenging and constitute the primary problems that hinder the use IoMT IoMT to use in clinical settings. In this paper, security and privacy issues and threats, as well as the requirements and research directions for the future in the area of IoMT are examined, giving an overview of most recent methods.