A systematic review of security and privacy issues in the internet of medical things; the role of machine learning approaches

Background: The Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs) is gradually replacing the traditional healthcare system. However, little attention has been paid to their security requirements in the development of the IoMT devices and systems. One of the main reasons can be the difficulty of tuning conventional...

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Main Authors: Hameed, Shilan S., Hassan, Wan Haslina, Abdul Latiff, Liza, Ghabban, Fahad
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Published: PeerJ Inc. 2021
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author Hameed, Shilan S.
Hassan, Wan Haslina
Abdul Latiff, Liza
Ghabban, Fahad
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Hassan, Wan Haslina
Abdul Latiff, Liza
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description Background: The Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs) is gradually replacing the traditional healthcare system. However, little attention has been paid to their security requirements in the development of the IoMT devices and systems. One of the main reasons can be the difficulty of tuning conventional security solutions to the IoMT system. Machine Learning (ML) has been successfully employed in the attack detection and mitigation process. Advanced ML technique can also be a promising approach to address the existing and anticipated IoMT security and privacy issues. However, because of the existing challenges of IoMT system, it is imperative to know how these techniques can be effectively utilized to meet the security and privacy requirements without affecting the IoMT systems quality, services, and device’s lifespan. Methodology: This article is devoted to perform a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the security and privacy issues of IoMT and their solutions by ML techniques. The recent research papers disseminated between 2010 and 2020 are selected from multiple databases and a standardized SLR method is conducted. A total of 153 papers were reviewed and a critical analysis was conducted on the selected papers. Furthermore, this review study attempts to highlight the limitation of the current methods and aims to find possible solutions to them. Thus, a detailed analysis was carried out on the selected papers through focusing on their methods, advantages, limitations, the utilized tools, and data. Results: It was observed that ML techniques have been significantly deployed for device and network layer security. Most of the current studies improved traditional metrics while ignored performance complexity metrics in their evaluations. Their studies environments and utilized data barely represent IoMT system. Therefore, conventional ML techniques may fail if metrics such as resource complexity and power usage are not considered.
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spelling utm.eprints-949412022-04-29T22:22:50Z http://eprints.utm.my/94941/ A systematic review of security and privacy issues in the internet of medical things; the role of machine learning approaches Hameed, Shilan S. Hassan, Wan Haslina Abdul Latiff, Liza Ghabban, Fahad T Technology (General) Background: The Internet of Medical Things (IoMTs) is gradually replacing the traditional healthcare system. However, little attention has been paid to their security requirements in the development of the IoMT devices and systems. One of the main reasons can be the difficulty of tuning conventional security solutions to the IoMT system. Machine Learning (ML) has been successfully employed in the attack detection and mitigation process. Advanced ML technique can also be a promising approach to address the existing and anticipated IoMT security and privacy issues. However, because of the existing challenges of IoMT system, it is imperative to know how these techniques can be effectively utilized to meet the security and privacy requirements without affecting the IoMT systems quality, services, and device’s lifespan. Methodology: This article is devoted to perform a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on the security and privacy issues of IoMT and their solutions by ML techniques. The recent research papers disseminated between 2010 and 2020 are selected from multiple databases and a standardized SLR method is conducted. A total of 153 papers were reviewed and a critical analysis was conducted on the selected papers. Furthermore, this review study attempts to highlight the limitation of the current methods and aims to find possible solutions to them. Thus, a detailed analysis was carried out on the selected papers through focusing on their methods, advantages, limitations, the utilized tools, and data. Results: It was observed that ML techniques have been significantly deployed for device and network layer security. Most of the current studies improved traditional metrics while ignored performance complexity metrics in their evaluations. Their studies environments and utilized data barely represent IoMT system. Therefore, conventional ML techniques may fail if metrics such as resource complexity and power usage are not considered. PeerJ Inc. 2021 Article PeerReviewed Hameed, Shilan S. and Hassan, Wan Haslina and Abdul Latiff, Liza and Ghabban, Fahad (2021) A systematic review of security and privacy issues in the internet of medical things; the role of machine learning approaches. PeerJ Computer Science, 7 . pp. 1-44. ISSN 2376-5992 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.414
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A systematic review of security and privacy issues in the internet of medical things; the role of machine learning approaches
title A systematic review of security and privacy issues in the internet of medical things; the role of machine learning approaches
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title_short A systematic review of security and privacy issues in the internet of medical things; the role of machine learning approaches
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