Multifactor Authentication for Smart Emergency Medical Response Transporters

Abstract

Securing telehealth IoT infrastructure is essential to provide high-level medical care and prevent cyberattacks. A vulnerable stage in IoT telehealth is while the patient is being transported to a healthcare facility, the transporter could be an ambulance or an air ambulance. In this paper, we propose a multifactor authentication scheme to secure the system when the patient is in transit to the healthcare facility. We apply this scheme to an ambulance, using physical unclonable functions (PUFs) embedded in the ambulance to facilitate authentication and secure key exchange. We validated the security of the proposed scheme using formal and informal security analysis. The analysis supports our claim that the proposed scheme protects against many types of attacks.

From Sensors to Safety: Internet of Emergency Services (IoES) for Emergency Response and Disaster Management

“…• Security and Privacy Risks: IoES relies on the exchange of sensitive and critical data among various stakeholders, such as emergency responders, healthcare providers, and the public [26]. As a result, there is a significant risk of cyber-attacks [97,149], data breaches [150], and unauthorized access to critical information [151]. The use of cloud computing and other third-party services can also raise concerns about the security and privacy of data [77,119,152,153].…”