ABSTRACT
The drive to Industry 4.0 has influenced the healthcare industry, giving rise to the internet of medical things (IoMT), which is a subset of the IoT that contains medical devices used to monitor, diagnose, and treat patients, including pulse oximeters, electrocardiograms (ECG), and dosimeters. The IoMT has a significant part in improving healthcare efficiency, efficacy, and quality. However, medical device usage, such as wearable devices, implantable devices, and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, is vulnerable to severe security problems. Due to the restricted processing resources, memory capacity, and medical devices’ energy constraints, privacy and security are the primary challenges of IoMT. By controlling such devices over the underlying network infrastructure, assaulters might exploit these devices’ significant system vulnerabilities. Attackers could harm patients by manipulating these devices’ settings, and these destructive attempts might come from anywhere in the world. Due to its critical applications and resource constraints, achieving a higher degree of patient privacy and data security in IoMT presents various challenges.
Therefore, in this research, we aim to study the privacy and security issues present on IoMT devices and systems. Moreover, we present an overview of the IoMT privacy and security challenges and identify the currently proposed security approaches in the literature addressed to secure the IoMT environment.
