Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Medical Things

Security and Privacy Issues in Internet of Medical Things addresses the security challenges faced by healthcare providers and patients. As IoMT devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks, and a security breach through IoMT devices may act as a pathway for hackers to enter hospital networks, the book covers a very timely topic. The incorporation of blockchain in the healthcare environment has given birth to the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), which consists of a collection of healthcare systems that espouse groundbreaking technologies. Systems consist of inter-linked sensors, wearable technology devices and clinical frameworks that perform explicit, secure machine-to-machine and cloud platform communications.

The significance of IoMT in the field of healthcare is undoubtedly a win-win situation for patients through technology enhancements and a collection of analytics that helps in better diagnosis and treatment. Due to higher accuracy levels, IoMT devices are more reliable in reporting and data tracking and help avoid human errors and incorrect reporting.

• Provides methods for constructing novel IoMT architectures and middleware services for healthcare applications to protect and secure patient data and privacy
• Presents readers with information security and privacy models for IoMT, including Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Data Storage security, Cloud, Fog and Edge computing security, and Wireless sensor device security
• Provides readers with case studies for real-world applications of IoMT security, including risk assessment for IoMT, Ethical issues in IoMT, Security assessment frameworks, and Threat-based security analysis for IoMT

About the Author

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 650 publications and seven textbooks including Mastering Cloud Computing from McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively. Dr. Buyya is one of the most highly-cited authors in Computer Sience and Software Engineering worldwide. “A Scientometric Analysis of Cloud Computing Literature” by German scientists ranked Dr. Buyya as the World's Top-Cited Author and the World's Most-Productive Author in Cloud Computing. He has been recognized as a Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher” for four consecutive years since 2016. Dr. Buyya was recognized as Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award from Elsevier; "Lifetime Achievement Awards" from two Indian universities, and the “Best of the World,” in the Computing Systems field, by The Australian 2019 Research Review. Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog computing developed under Dr. Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial enterprises in 40 countries around the world. Dr. Buyya has led the establishment and development of key community activities, including serving as foundation Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing and five IEEE/ACM conferences. These contributions and the international research leadership of Dr. Buyya are recognized through the award of the “2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing” from the IEEE Computer Society TCSC. Manjrasoft's Aneka Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received the "Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation Award." Dr. Buyya served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a long-standing journal in the field, established more than 50 years ago.

Dr. Muhammad Imran Tariq is a Professor of Computer Science at Superior University, Lahore, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Superior University. Dr. Tariq has attained the MCSE, MCP+I, A+, and CCNA certifications. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Information Security standards, Service Level Agreement, Information Security Metrics, Cloud Risks, and its mitigation techniques, Wireless Networks Security, Image processing, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Networks, Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Fuzzy Logic, and Risk Management. He is the author of two books on Cloud Security and also the author of three contributed book chapters. Dr. Tariq is Associate Editor of IEEE Access and Member of the Editorial Board for SCIREA Journal of Computers. Dr. Tariq is also a member of the research group of the Cloud Security Alliance.

Valentina Emilia Balas is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania. She holds a PhD cum Laude in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is the author of more than 350 research papers. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the 'International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms' and the 'International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering', an editorial board member for several other national and international publications, and an expert evaluator for national and international projects and PhD theses.

Dr. Guojun Wang is a Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor of Higher Education in Guangdong Province, a Vice Dean and a Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Computer Science, Guangzhou University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, at Central South University, China. He received the 2014 First Prize of the National Natural Science Award, State Council of the People's Republic of China. He was listed in "Chinese Most Cited Researchers" (Computer Science) by Elsevier in the past five consecutive years. He was formerly a Professor at Central South University, China; an Adjunct Professor at Temple University, USA; a Visiting Scholar at Florida Atlantic University, USA; a Visiting Researcher at the University of Aizu, Japan; and a Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, cloud computing, mobile computing, trustworthy/dependable computing, cyberspace security, recommendation systems, and mobile healthcare systems. He has published more than 400 technical papers and books/chapters in the above areas. His research is supported by Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China (863 Plan), and the Ministry of Education Fund for Doctoral Disciplines in Higher Education. He has served as an associate editor or on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Security and Communication Networks (SCN), and International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (IJPEDS). He is the Leading Steering Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), the Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS), and the Leading Steering Chair of the International Conference on Smart City and Informatization (iSCI).

Dr. Radu Prodan is a Professor of Distributed Systems at the Institute of Software Technology, University of Klagenfurt, Germany. He received his Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology and was Associate Professor until 2018 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Dr. Prodan has participated in numerous national and European projects, and is currently principal coordinator of the H2020-ICT project ARTICONF (smART social media eCOsystem in a blockchaiN Federated environment). He is the co-author of Grid Computing from Springer.