Survey on internet of things security and medical data protection: Challenges and perspectives

The Internet of Things is a constantly evolving technology. It is a current reality which is justified by its many applications in several fields (industry, smart cities, transport, agriculture, health …). These devices connected to the Internet are able to perform tasks autonomously with minimal or no human interaction producing and exchanging a lot of data. These connected objects are victims of numerous attacks and the constraints imposed on sensor networks (mainly resource limitations) prevent the installation of very robust security mechanisms as they require powerful devices, which is not the case for IoT systems. Traditional approaches, although used, are not very well adapted to the IoT scale. New security approaches to ensure confidentiality, integrity, authenticity etc. and successful deployment of IoT are being explored. This document presents the current set of threats to IoT networks. But also, their contribution to the medical field, as well as solutions and approaches such as AI, Machine Learning, SDN, blockchain and TDAG to secure the Internet of medical objects (for control and access to patient data).