On Cyber Security Risk of Medical Devices

Nowadays, Internet of Things for healthcare applications is an industry whose fast evolution promises to improve dramatically the performance of healthcare services. Implying Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) allows for the extension of the accessibility to healthcare services, improves the effectiveness of care treatments, enhances prevention, and reduces services’ costs. Specifically, remote healthcare services will bring with it relevant benefits related to the increasing of chronic diseases caused by the population aging. Those benefits are estimated by Mckinsey up to 1.6 trillion within 2025. Such an impressive step of technology evolution, resulting from the synergy of several technologies in fast progression as IoT, telecommunication systems, and data analysis, raises challenges and critical issues. Among these issues, cybersecurity and privacy play a key role in providing reliable services and creating the needed trust in solutions to foster their adoption. From this perspective, this paper wants to provide a state-of-the-art of vulnerabilities about Medical Devices in IoMT fashion, with the aim of giving an updated perception of the risks of the adoption of these fast-emerging technologies. The work provides a snapshot of the vulnerabilities affecting the IoMT devices with their impacts and establishes a rank of risk related to the cyber security vulnerabilities among critical sector industries.