A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency

Data confidentiality is a major problem for healthcare and medical emergency system since it accumulates significant information. Sharing and transmission of private via Internet leads to easily intercept it by unauthorized parties. Attackers need to access private information by capturing data tran...

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Main Authors: Hameed, Shihab A., Yuchoh, Habib, Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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author Hameed, Shihab A.
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description Data confidentiality is a major problem for healthcare and medical emergency system since it accumulates significant information. Sharing and transmission of private via Internet leads to easily intercept it by unauthorized parties. Attackers need to access private information by capturing data transmission and forging themselves as authorized user. Multilevel security is needed in Healthcare and Medical Emergency since its database contains information of various confidentiality levels. This research, address the confidentiality issue by designing and developing new model for data confidentiality. It provides a view of data sensitivity and suggests areas in cryptography to protect data at different sensitivity levels. The proposed model protects transmitting data using role-base security policy and cryptographic system. We classified related information into several sensitivity levels. A suitable cryptography is provided for each level of data sensitivity to support this System. Result of implementation shows that it keeps specific sensitive data confidential at a certain degree with a good performance comparing with normal system and existing security protocols such as SSL and PGP. Furthermore, the cost of encryption and decryption is not high and kept at acceptable level.
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spelling iium-284952013-03-27T07:31:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/28495/ A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency Hameed, Shihab A. Yuchoh, Habib Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed T10.5 Communication of technical information T175 Industrial research. Research and development Data confidentiality is a major problem for healthcare and medical emergency system since it accumulates significant information. Sharing and transmission of private via Internet leads to easily intercept it by unauthorized parties. Attackers need to access private information by capturing data transmission and forging themselves as authorized user. Multilevel security is needed in Healthcare and Medical Emergency since its database contains information of various confidentiality levels. This research, address the confidentiality issue by designing and developing new model for data confidentiality. It provides a view of data sensitivity and suggests areas in cryptography to protect data at different sensitivity levels. The proposed model protects transmitting data using role-base security policy and cryptographic system. We classified related information into several sensitivity levels. A suitable cryptography is provided for each level of data sensitivity to support this System. Result of implementation shows that it keeps specific sensitive data confidential at a certain degree with a good performance comparing with normal system and existing security protocols such as SSL and PGP. Furthermore, the cost of encryption and decryption is not high and kept at acceptable level. 2011 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/28495/1/IEC-ICOM_2011-ID_160-Data_Confidatiality_HMEM-Dr_shihab_-Camera-_IEEE-LV.pdf Hameed, Shihab A. and Yuchoh, Habib and Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed (2011) A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency. In: 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM'11), 17-19 May 2011, Kuala Lumpur. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937139 doi:10.1109/ICOM.2011.5937139
spellingShingle T10.5 Communication of technical information
T175 Industrial research. Research and development
Hameed, Shihab A.
Yuchoh, Habib
Al-Khateeb, Wajdi Fawzi Mohammed
A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency
title A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency
title_full A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency
title_fullStr A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency
title_full_unstemmed A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency
title_short A model for ensuring data confidentiality: In healthcare and medical emergency
title_sort model for ensuring data confidentiality: in healthcare and medical emergency
topic T10.5 Communication of technical information
T175 Industrial research. Research and development
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/28495/1/IEC-ICOM_2011-ID_160-Data_Confidatiality_HMEM-Dr_shihab_-Camera-_IEEE-LV.pdf