Security Threats and Cryptographic Protocols for Medical Wearables

Hernández–Álvarez, Luis; Pérez, Juan José Bullón; Batista, Farrah Kristel; Dios, Araceli Queiruga

doi:10.3390/math10060886

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“…Data collection, integration, analytic techniques, real-time monitoring, alerting systems, response and intervention, feedback loops, and security and privacy are all components of continuous monitoring and anomaly detection. Early warning of possible threats allows healthcare providers to respond more readily and organize their actions more efficiently [78]. Continuous monitoring and anomaly detection in the SHS provides benefits such as improved patient outcomes and safety, increased efficiency and cost-effectiveness in healthcare delivery, and the ability to identify and respond quickly to cybersecurity incidents [139][140].…”

Section: Continuous Monitoring and Detection Of Anomaliesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cybersecurity for Sustainable Smart Healthcare: State of the Art, Taxonomy, Mechanisms, and Essential Roles

Ali,

M. Mijwil

2024

Mesopotamian Journal of CyberSecurity

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Cutting-edge technologies have been widely employed in healthcare delivery, resulting in transformative advances and promising enhanced patient care, operational efficiency, and resource usage. However, the proliferation of networked devices and data-driven systems has created new cybersecurity threats that jeopardize the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of critical healthcare data. This review paper offers a comprehensive evaluation of the current state of cybersecurity in the context of smart healthcare, presenting a structured taxonomy of its existing cyber threats, mechanisms and essential roles. This study explored cybersecurity and smart healthcare systems (SHSs). It identified and discussed the most pressing cyber threats and attacks that SHSs face, including fake base stations, medjacking, and Sybil attacks. This study examined the security measures deployed to combat cyber threats and attacks in SHSs. These measures include cryptographic-based techniques, digital watermarking, digital steganography, and many others. Patient data protection, the prevention of data breaches, and the maintenance of SHS integrity and availability are some of the roles of cybersecurity in ensuring sustainable smart healthcare. The long-term viability of smart healthcare depends on the constant assessment of cyber risks that harm healthcare providers, patients, and professionals. This review aims to inform policymakers, healthcare practitioners, and technology stakeholders about the critical imperatives and best practices for fostering a secure and resilient smart healthcare ecosystem by synthesizing insights from multidisciplinary perspectives, such as cybersecurity, healthcare management, and sustainability research. Understanding the most recent cybersecurity measures is critical for controlling escalating cyber threats and attacks on SHSs and networks and encouraging intelligent healthcare delivery.

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Section: Continuous Monitoring and Detection Of Anomaliesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cybersecurity for Sustainable Smart Healthcare: State of the Art, Taxonomy, Mechanisms, and Essential Roles

Ali,

M. Mijwil

2024

Mesopotamian Journal of CyberSecurity

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“…Also, the NIST's other recent initiative [52,53] underscores the critical need for lightweight cryptography in constrained environments as analyzed, for example, in [54]. These efforts reflect a future trend in the cryptographic towards developing solutions that are both quantum-resistant and resource-efficient.…”

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Performance and Applicability of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms in Resource-Constrained Environments

Vidaković,

Miličević

2023

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The continuous development of quantum computing necessitates the development of quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms. In response to this demand, the National Institute of Standards and Technology selected standardized algorithms including Crystals-Dilithium, Falcon, and Sphincs+ for digital signatures. This paper provides a comparative evaluation of these algorithms across key metrics. The results indicate varying strengths and weaknesses for each algorithm, underscoring the importance of context-specific deployments. Our findings indicate that Dilithium offers advantages in low-power scenarios, Falcon excels in signature verification speed, and Sphincs+ provides robust security at the cost of computational efficiency. These results underscore the importance of context-specific deployments in specific and resource-constrained technological applications, like IoT, smart cards, blockchain, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication.

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“…In addition, they are not feasible for systems that include wearable devices, such as HARSs. In addition, studies such as [23,24] refer to authentication protocols via wireless sensor networks and wearable devices using individual cryptographic solutions, not a holistic approach. Thus, there is no total assessment to offer protection at all stages of the system procedures.…”

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Exploiting Security Issues in Human Activity Recognition Systems (HARSs)

2023

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Human activity recognition systems (HARSs) are vital in a wide range of real-life applications and are a vibrant academic research area. Although they are adopted in many fields, such as the environment, agriculture, and healthcare and they are considered assistive technology, they seem to neglect the aspects of security and privacy. This problem occurs due to the pervasive nature of sensor-based HARSs. Sensors are devices with low power and computational capabilities, joining a machine learning application that lies in a dynamic and heterogeneous communication environment, and there is no generalized unified approach to evaluate their security/privacy, but rather only individual solutions. In this work, we studied HARSs in particular and tried to extend existing techniques for these systems considering the security/privacy of all participating components. Initially, in this work, we present the architecture of a real-life medical IoT application and the data flow across the participating entities. Then, we briefly review security and privacy issues and present possible vulnerabilities of each system layer. We introduce an architecture over the communication layer that offers mutual authentication, solving many security and privacy issues, particularly the man-in-the-middle attack (MitM). Relying on the proposed solutions, we manage to prevent unauthorized access to critical information by providing a trustworthy application.

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Security Threats and Cryptographic Protocols for Medical Wearables

Cited by 12 publications

References 68 publications

Cybersecurity for Sustainable Smart Healthcare: State of the Art, Taxonomy, Mechanisms, and Essential Roles

Cybersecurity for Sustainable Smart Healthcare: State of the Art, Taxonomy, Mechanisms, and Essential Roles

Performance and Applicability of Post-Quantum Digital Signature Algorithms in Resource-Constrained Environments

Exploiting Security Issues in Human Activity Recognition Systems (HARSs)

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