Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) has opened up limitless possibilities to capture and share data of nearly any electronic device. Inevitably, an increasing number of medical devices will join this emerging trend of device data collection, processing, and sharing due to the enormous potential to enrich lives. Unfortunately, devices connecting to the Internet inherit the fundamental flaws which have plagued the Internet since its inception. These flaws allow cybercriminals to search for, access, exploit, steal, modify, and even destroy data and devices of unsuspecting victims. This is extremely problematic for medical devices, which will contain personal and critical data, specific of the owner it belongs to. In this chapter, we will discuss a subset of security issues concerning the Internet, IoT, and the adoption of IoT-enabled medical devices. We will also discuss proposed solutions to these issues and, in particular, present a network science-based method that has been successfully used to analyze botnets which is one of the major threats posed by IoT devices.
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Paxton, N.C., Branca, D.L. (2020). Managing the Risks of Emerging IoT Devices. In: Wickramasinghe, N., Bodendorf, F. (eds) Delivering Superior Health and Wellness Management with IoT and Analytics. Healthcare Delivery in the Information Age. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17347-0_22
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