Securing a Connected Mobile System for Healthcare

Connected mobile systems are useful to provide remote and continuous monitoring, which has been increasingly applied in healthcare. In order to protect patients' privacy based on HIPPA regulation, the security of connected mobile systems decides if users can trust and adopt the system. This paper proposes a novel approach to protect a connected mobile system in a mobile cloud environment. The novel approach is able to provide connected mobile systems with authentication, encryption, and usable security that counter attacks such as sniffing, replay, and man-in-the-middle attacks. The performance including encryption, decryption, and key generation time has been evaluated based on a real-world mobile cloud environment. Security robustness has been analyzed based on several threat models as well.