Advances in Internet of Things, 2015, 5, 21-25 Published Online July 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ait http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ait.2015.53004 How to cite this paper: Yehia, L., Khedr, A. and Darwish, A. (2015) Hybrid Security Techniques for Internet of Things Healthcare Applications. Advances in Internet of Things, 5, 21-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ait.2015.53004 Hybrid Security Techniques for Internet of Things Healthcare Applications Lobna Yehia 1 , Ayman Khedr 2 , Ashraf Darwish 1 1 Computer Science Department, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt 2 Information Systems Department, Faculty of Computers & Information, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt Email: lobna.yehia2015@hotmail.com Received 17 June 2015; accepted 27 July 2015; published 30 July 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) describes the future where every day physical objects will be con- nected to the internet and be able to identify themselves to other devices. IoT is a new revolution of the Internet and It will effect in a large number of applications such as smart living, smart home, healthcare systems, smart manufacturing, environment monitoring, and smart logistics. This pa- per provides integration, summarizes and surveys some of the security techniques especially hy- brid techniques that can be applied with healthcare applications in IoT environment. Keywords IoT, Healthcare Applications, Hybrid Security Techniques, Body Area Networks 1. Introduction IoT aims to enable things to be connected anyplace, anything and anytime using any service/network. IoT will create technological revolution in a large number of applications [1]. Internet technology has become ubiquitous within our society which is infiltrating all aspects of our lives, and it is better to call it as necessity rather than convenience [2]. The term IoT was first used by Kevin Ashton [3], where the physical world is becoming one big information system. Because of the continuing decline in the cost of hardware and network connections used in the IoT, it would be easy to see everything and everyone in our physical world connected to the Internet through wireless network 24 hours per day. In 2020, it is expected that the number of Internet-connected devices ranges from 26 billion to 50 billion as in [1]. There are many IoT applications, and within those healthcare sys- tems, it is considered one of the most important challenges that our society faces today and will be surveyed with security hybrid techniques in this paper. IoT could fetch many advantages in the field of healthcare, through the use of smart sensors, equipment, detectors, etc. These allow the identification and patient tracking