Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry
The task of protecting healthcare information systems (HIS) from immediate cyber security risks has been intertwined with cloud computing adoption. The data and resources of HISs are inherently shared with other systems for remote access, decision making, emergency, and other healthcare related pers...
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| author | Hina Abrar Syed Jawad Hussain Junaid Chaudhry Kashif Saleem Mehmet A. Orgun Jalal Al-Muhtadi Craig Valli |
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| description | The task of protecting healthcare information systems (HIS) from immediate cyber security risks has been intertwined with cloud computing adoption. The data and resources of HISs are inherently shared with other systems for remote access, decision making, emergency, and other healthcare related perspectives. In the case of a multitude of requirements by multiple stakeholders, various, and diverse cloud models are being adopted across the healthcare and public health industry, which defies the real essence of sharing and using cloud computing in this domain. The misconception of security is one of the key hurdles in the adoption of cloud as a de facto standard in the healthcare and public health sector. In this paper, we demonstrate the similarity of the security aspects of the cloud computing models, by identifying the critical assets in the HIS, and by assessing their impact on the HIS. We also evaluate the risk exposure of the cloud computing models by performing a critical analysis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind for risk analysis of cloud computing models in order to demonstrate their suitability for the HIS. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3edcd5e4a9c8433e8972e3631baecd1c2022-12-21T21:25:15ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016191401915010.1109/ACCESS.2018.28059198291578Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health IndustryHina Abrar0Syed Jawad Hussain1Junaid Chaudhry2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2000-7915Kashif Saleem3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8062-3301Mehmet A. Orgun4Jalal Al-Muhtadi5Craig Valli6Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HITEC University, Taxila, PakistanDepartment of Computer Science and Information Technology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, PakistanCollege of Security and Intelligence, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ, USACenter of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCenter of Excellence in Information Assurance, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSecurity Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, AustraliaThe task of protecting healthcare information systems (HIS) from immediate cyber security risks has been intertwined with cloud computing adoption. The data and resources of HISs are inherently shared with other systems for remote access, decision making, emergency, and other healthcare related perspectives. In the case of a multitude of requirements by multiple stakeholders, various, and diverse cloud models are being adopted across the healthcare and public health industry, which defies the real essence of sharing and using cloud computing in this domain. The misconception of security is one of the key hurdles in the adoption of cloud as a de facto standard in the healthcare and public health sector. In this paper, we demonstrate the similarity of the security aspects of the cloud computing models, by identifying the critical assets in the HIS, and by assessing their impact on the HIS. We also evaluate the risk exposure of the cloud computing models by performing a critical analysis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind for risk analysis of cloud computing models in order to demonstrate their suitability for the HIS.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8291578/Cloudscyberspacepublic healthcarerisk analysissecurity |
| spellingShingle | Hina Abrar Syed Jawad Hussain Junaid Chaudhry Kashif Saleem Mehmet A. Orgun Jalal Al-Muhtadi Craig Valli Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry IEEE Access Clouds cyberspace public healthcare risk analysis security |
| title | Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry |
| title_full | Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry |
| title_fullStr | Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry |
| title_short | Risk Analysis of Cloud Sourcing in Healthcare and Public Health Industry |
| title_sort | risk analysis of cloud sourcing in healthcare and public health industry |
| topic | Clouds cyberspace public healthcare risk analysis security |
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