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IoT in Healthcare: Breaching Security Issues

IoT in Healthcare: Breaching Security Issues

Somasundaram R, Mythili Thirugnanam
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781522522966|ISBN10: 1522522964|EISBN13: 9781522522973
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2296-6.ch008
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Somasundaram R, and Mythili Thirugnanam. "IoT in Healthcare: Breaching Security Issues." Security Breaches and Threat Prevention in the Internet of Things, edited by N. Jeyanthi and R. Thandeeswaran, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 174-188. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2296-6.ch008

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Somasundaram R & Thirugnanam, M. (2017). IoT in Healthcare: Breaching Security Issues. In N. Jeyanthi & R. Thandeeswaran (Eds.), Security Breaches and Threat Prevention in the Internet of Things (pp. 174-188). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2296-6.ch008

Chicago

Somasundaram R, and Mythili Thirugnanam. "IoT in Healthcare: Breaching Security Issues." In Security Breaches and Threat Prevention in the Internet of Things, edited by N. Jeyanthi and R. Thandeeswaran, 174-188. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2296-6.ch008

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Abstract

The fields of computer science and electronics have merged to result into one of the most notable technological advances in the form of realization of the Internet of Things. The market for healthcare services has increased exponentially at the same time security flaws could pose serious threats to the health and safety of patients using wearable technologies and RFID. The volume and sensitivity of data traversing the IoT environment makes dangerous to messages and data could be intercepted and manipulated while in transit. This scenario must absolutely respect the confidentiality and privacy of patient's medical information. Therefore, this chapter presents various security issues or vulnerabilities with respect to attacks and various situations how information will be attacked by the attacker in healthcare IoT. The working principle of healthcare IoT also discussed. The chapter concludes the performance of various attacks based on the past work. In the future this work can be extended to introduce a novel mechanism to resolve various security issues in healthcare IoT.

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