Security for Healthcare Internet of Things

医疗保健物联网的安全

• 批准号: 571803-2021
• 负责人: Sampalli, SrinivasS
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=750252
• 关键词: Security; Healthcare; Internet; Things

Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) technology is ushering a new era in medical care and wellness, with remote patient monitoring, improved patient care, reduced costs, and enhanced health outcomes in both acute care and chronic disease management. A Healthcare IoT system comprises of a network of smart devices such as wearables, sensors and medical monitors interconnected using wireless technologies. While the technology promises enormous benefits in patient care, it also brings new risks as many of these connected devices are unprotected. Cyber-attacks on such systems, ranging from eavesdropping, message tampering to denial of service, can not only impact patients' privacy but also can have catastrophic consequences on patient care itself. Therefore, security for Healthcare IoT stands out as a critical research area before it can be successfully deployed and widely adopted. The primary objective of this proposal is to investigate vulnerabilities, security threats and intrusions on Healthcare IoT systems, and design intrusion detection and prevention mechanisms to mitigate cyber-attacks on such systems. The project will explore an integration of machine learning approaches with biometric parameters to ensure confidentiality, integrity and authentication of healthcare data, and experimentally validate these mechanisms on a Healthcare IoT test bench. This Catalyst grant will be used as a tool to initiate and explore long-term collaboration between the Principal Investigator's MYTech (EMerging WIreless Technologies) Lab at Dalhousie University and the collaborator's Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India. The major benefits of this proposal will be knowledge mobilization and knowledge transfer by addressing the research gap in healthcare security and training valuable HQP in this area. This will be of importance to Canadian federal and regional health authorities such as Health Canada, Nova Scotia Health, and Public Health Agency of Canada.

医疗保健物联网(IoT)技术正在引领医疗保健和健康领域的新纪元，在急性护理和慢性病管理方面，远程患者监控、改善患者护理、降低成本和改善健康结果。医疗物联网系统由可穿戴设备、传感器和医疗监测器等使用无线技术互连的智能设备网络组成。虽然这项技术有望在患者护理方面带来巨大好处，但它也带来了新的风险，因为许多这些联网设备没有受到保护。对这类系统的网络攻击，从窃听、信息篡改到拒绝服务，不仅会影响患者的隐私，还可能对患者护理本身造成灾难性后果。因此，在Healthcare IoT能够成功部署和广泛采用之前，其安全性是一个关键的研究领域。该提案的主要目标是调查医疗保健物联网系统上的漏洞、安全威胁和入侵，并设计入侵检测和预防机制，以减少对此类系统的网络攻击。该项目将探索机器学习方法与生物识别参数的集成，以确保医疗数据的机密性、完整性和身份验证，并在Healthcare IoT测试台上实验验证这些机制。这笔Catalyst赠款将被用作一种工具，用于启动和探索达尔豪西大学首席研究员的MYTech(新兴无线技术)实验室与印度罗帕尔印度理工学院(IIT)计算机科学与工程系之间的长期合作。这项建议的主要好处将是通过解决医疗保健安全方面的研究差距和培训这一领域的宝贵HQP来调动和转让知识。这将对加拿大联邦和地区卫生当局，如加拿大卫生部、新斯科舍省卫生局和加拿大公共卫生局具有重要意义。