BMIL researchers Dr. George Ray, Dr. Albert Mubako, and Dr. Jeffrey Ray, recently published a paper on this important topic. Africa has a growing industry producing medical devices for the developing world that are ASSURED: Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User-friendly, Rapid, Equipment-free and Deliverable to end-users. This industry, and more generally healthcare in Africa, benefits by adding security to ASSURED.
This paper investigates two questions related to security for IoT medical solutions: (1) What are the vulnerable security points in an IoT based medical system; and (2) How can these vulnerabilities be hardened? To answer these questions, a security reference architecture is identified that can be the framework for identifying, understanding, teaching and mitigating threats in the various modules of an IoT healthcare solution.