Investigation of Security Attacks in IoMT Devices and Federated Learning as a Mitigation Strategy

Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is transforming the healthcare business with an increasing number of wearables, gadgets, and sensing devices. As a result, several patients are under daily monitoring for their cardio health, blood glucose level, blood pressure, etc. The data generated by these devices are very voluminous, and there is an increasing need for safeguarding these sensitive data in order to protect them from malicious attacks. This paper suggests to incorporate Federated learning model to IoMT as a mitigative measure. It is apt to induct FL into IoMT as it operates on a collaborative environment which do not allow transfer of the raw data. Patients’ data are stored at the client end itself and only model updates are shared to the server. In this way, the data and network attacks can be reduced to a great extent. This work proposes an integrated architecture where the layers of FL and IoMT can be knotted up for ensuring privacy and security. This proposed architecture model, further elaborates a distributed working environment. This paper illustrates how FL helps in securing the data produced by the different IoMT devices through the proposed architecture. The challenges involved in the deployment of FL in the framework of IoMT along with potential research directions are discussed further in this research.