Review of security challenges in healthcare internet of things

COVID-19 is a global infectious disease that can be easily spread by the contiguity of infected people. To prevent from COVID-19 and reduce its impact in sustainable smart cities, the global research communities are working relentlessly by harnessing the emerging technologies to develop the safest diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment procedures, and Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the pioneers among them. IoT can perform a pivotal role to diminish its immense contagious rate by suitable utilization in emerging healthcare IoT applications in sustainable smart cities. Therefore, the focus of this paper is to outline a survey of the emerging healthcare IoT applications practiced in the perspective of COVID-19 pandemic in terms of network architecture security, trustworthiness, authentication, and data preservation followed by identifying existing challenges to set the future research directions. The salient contributions of this work deal with the accomplishment of a detailed and comprehensive literature review of COVID-19 starting from 2019 through 2021 in the context of emerging healthcare IoT technology. In addition, we extend the correlated contributions of this work by highlighting the weak aspects of the existing emerging healthcare IoT applications, security of different network layers and secure communication environment followed by some associated requirements to address these challenges. Moreover, we also identify future research directions in sustainable smart cities for emerging healthcare IoT utilization in the context of COVID-19 with the most productive results and least network implementation costs.

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“…(2019) No Partial Yes No No Yes Yes Somasundaram et al. Somasundaram and Thirugnanam (2020) Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Baker et al. Baker et al.…”

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confidence: 99%

Emerging IoT Applications in Sustainable Smart Cities for COVID-19: Network Security and Data Preservation Challenges with Future Directions

Adil

Khan

2021

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…However, data security information for patients is given at all data handling, delivery, cloud storage, and data republication levels [24,25]. For medical security and privacy systems on the network of wireless medical sensors, the following four requirements should be considered [26].…”

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“…• Various attack resistance: In a multi-server environment, the authentication scheme should be able to resist specific passive and active attacks, practically in real-world applications [28]. • Key Agreement for Secure Session: The proposed scheme should provide a secure session key to encrypt communication and protect the authentication message between entities [26].…”

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Cross-SN: A Lightweight Authentication Scheme for a Multi-Server Platform Using IoT-Based Wireless Medical Sensor Network

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Several wireless devices and applications can be connected through wireless communication technologies to exchange data in future intelligent health systems (e.g., the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)). Smart healthcare requires ample bandwidth, reliable and effective communications networks, energy-efficient operations, and quality of service support (QoS). Healthcare service providers host multi-servers to ensure seamless services are provided to the end-users. By supporting a multi-server environment, healthcare medical sensors produce many data transmitted via servers, which is impossible in a single-server architecture. To ensure data security, secure online communication must be considered since the transmitted data are sensitive. Hence, the adversary may try to interrupt the transmission and drop or modify the message. Many researchers have proposed an authentication scheme to secure the data, but the schemes are vulnerable to specific attacks (modification attacks, replay attacks, server spoofing attacks, Man-in-the middle (MiTM) attacks, etc.). However, the absence of an authentication scheme that supports a multi-server security in such a comprehensive development in a distributed server is still an issue. In this paper, a secure authentication scheme using wireless medical sensor networks for a multi-server environment is proposed (Cross-SN). The scheme is implemented with a smart card, password, and user identity. Elliptic curve cryptography is utilized in the scheme, and Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic is utilized to secure mutual authentication and to analyse the proposed scheme’s security. It offers adequate protection against replies, impersonation, and privileged insider attacks and secure communication in multi-server parties that communicate with each other.

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“…Recently, hackers are more creative in their methodologies and use various tactics to break into a system. It is inevitable to consider the following threat vectors while designing an IoMT defense scheme [11][12][13][14].…”

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Internet of Medical Things: Security Threats, Security Challenges, and Potential Solutions

Avinashiappan¹,

Mayilsamy²

2021

Internet of Things

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Review of security challenges in healthcare internet of things

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Emerging IoT Applications in Sustainable Smart Cities for COVID-19: Network Security and Data Preservation Challenges with Future Directions

Emerging IoT Applications in Sustainable Smart Cities for COVID-19: Network Security and Data Preservation Challenges with Future Directions

Cross-SN: A Lightweight Authentication Scheme for a Multi-Server Platform Using IoT-Based Wireless Medical Sensor Network

Internet of Medical Things: Security Threats, Security Challenges, and Potential Solutions

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