Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge

Life expectancy in most countries has been increasing continually over the several few decades thanks to significant improvements in medicine, public health, as well as personal and environmental hygiene. However, increased life expectancy combined with falling birth rates are expected to engender a large aging demographic in the near future that would impose significant burdens on the socio-economic structure of these countries. Therefore, it is essential to develop cost-effective, easy-to-use systems for the sake of elderly healthcare and well-being. Remote health monitoring, based on non-invasive and wearable sensors, actuators and modern communication and information technologies offers an efficient and cost-effective solution that allows the elderly to continue to live in their comfortable home environment instead of expensive healthcare facilities. These systems will also allow healthcare personnel to monitor important physiological signs of their patients in real time, assess health conditions and provide feedback from distant facilities. In this paper, we have presented and compared several low-cost and non-invasive health and activity monitoring systems that were reported in recent years. A survey on textile-based sensors that can potentially be used in wearable systems is also presented. Finally, compatibility of several communication technologies as well as future perspectives and research challenges in remote monitoring systems will be discussed.

Wearable Sensors for Remote Health Monitoring.

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Review of 'Understanding knowledge as a commons. From theory to practice.' edited by Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom

Over the last few years, healthcare administrations have been digitizing their provision of care that led to an increased number of networked medical devices and medical telemetry. Due to such digitization, medical devices have made phenomenal strides in the course of the last half-century. These networked medical devices have enhanced the quality and accessibility of health treatments by achieving pervasive healthcare vision. Moreover, these devices have transformed the canvas of medical treatments and improved the lives of the masses. Such innovation, as a result, assisted in paving the way for reliable healthcare facilities through the introduction of new areas of therapeutic and diagnostic treatments. Medical devices, nowadays, are portable, networked, and capable enough to facilitate human lives. The refined quality and variety of these devices put forward a promising future. However, on the other hand, the healthcare sector is experiencing the greatest amount of security breaches due to the presence of security flaws in medical devices. As these devices are no longer standalone systems and are network-connected, the attack surface has increased profoundly. Actually, devices in practice were designed, developed, and disseminated long ago. Therefore, they were not developed from the ground up with security as a vital design constraint. The flaws present in these devices have acquired the consideration of researchers from both industry and academia. In this paper, we studied security vulnerabilities present in state-of-the-art medical devices by studying security tests and the attacks demonstrated by the researchers on more than a hundred devices. Finally, some state-of-the-art solutions and countermeasures along with applicable regulations in literature were also studied and analyzed. Since these devices are life-critical and can even cause the death of a patient, therefore, this survey is significant as it can assist researchers to get an overview of loopholes present in medical devices and existing countermeasures. We concluded this survey paper with some open research areas that should be properly considered in order to secure these life-critical medical devices.

Security Vulnerabilities, Attacks, Countermeasures, and Regulations of Networked Medical Devices—A Review

Background – Risk Analysis is an integral part of management practice and an essential element of good corporate governance. There are many risk analysis methods available today, and it is a tedious task for an organization (particularly small and mid-scale company) to choose the proper method. Problem – Although many methods and tools are available in this domain, very few inventories do exist that are structured according to a set of common properties. There are many risk analysis methods available today, and the main task for an organization is to determine which one to use. Contribution – The objective of this review paper is to provide researchers, an analysis of four risk analysis methods using the Campbell et al. classification scheme. The major contributions of this paper are; 1) Present a summary of four Information Security Risk analysis methods using ontology, 2) Classify these risk analysis methods using Campbell et al. classification scheme, 3) Compare risk analysis methods based on generic attributes i.e. input, outcome, purpose, effort, scalability, methodology, etc.

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A Comparative Study on Information Security Risk Analysis Methods

Background –The design and development of wearable sensors enable user to monitor physiological data using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in healthcare. Problem –healthcare applications based on WSNs are not addressing security and privacy issues. Effect –A healthcare system using a sensor network can subject to the privacy breach of the patients as the sensitive data may be exposed to a malicious party. Serious security threats might compromise the healthcare service, disabling patients to avail healthcare facilities. Contribution –(a) An overview of the status of security requirements in various WSNs healthcare application. (b) An overview of potential security and privacy threats that can compromise the normal functionality of a WSNs healthcare system. (c) We also present a study on the existing security mechanisms to safeguard WSNs healthcare system.

Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare

The purpose of this paper is to present a solution to manage the concepts related to ISO/IEC 27005:2011 standard in such a way that different stakeholders could access and understand them without misleading their meanings. This paper presents an ontology to structure and organize core concepts of risk assessment phase of ISO/IEC 27005:2011 standard. The method of ontology development ontology follows seven steps guideline. A case scenario of a health clinic is developed to apply the proposed ontology where each entity and relation of the ontology is described. The paper provides a reference point for professionals and researchers by presenting an ontology to describe various concepts of ISO/IEC 27005:2011 in the field of information security risk management.

Towards the Ontology of ISO/IEC 27005: 2011 Risk Management Standard.

Information Security Risk Management (ISRM) process involves several activities to conduct a risk management (RM) task in an organization. ISRM activities require access to various information related to the organization. An organization often needs to share information related to an ISRM process with the stakeholders involved in the activity. Therefore, it is important to manage the information which is critical to the operations of the organization. The presence of an information classification scheme can enable the proper handling of the information involved in the RM task. We selected ISO/IEC27005:2011 risk management standard to assess various information generated during the process of applying this standard in an organization. The purpose of this study is to propose a framework to show various information objects involved in ISO27005 risk management standard and classify the information based on the guideline provided by UNINETT scheme. A case scenario of a health clinic is developed to identify ISRM related information objects using the proposed framework and classify the information using UNINETT scheme.

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A Framework for the Information Classification in ISO 27005 Standard

One typically expects that sharing and re-use of information improve both quality and process cost effectiveness. To explore this in a learning environment, we have developed the UnRizkNow forum. The purpose of this study is to investigate the students' behavior in knowledge sharing activities on UnRizkNow forum. In our study, we found that students used UnRizkNow for learning, sharing and interacting with the instructor. However, students are skeptical of participating and sharing information for various reasons. The behaviors of students are explained with the help of descriptive theories at individual and community level of participation. The findings of this study will assist teachers and researchers to predict the behavior of the participants in an online community of practice and to assess the effectiveness of design alternatives when developing knowledge sharing platforms for learning information security.

Vivek Agrawal

Papers

A Comparative Study on Information Security Risk Analysis Methods

Security and Privacy Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks for Healthcare

Towards the Ontology of ISO/IEC 27005: 2011 Risk Management Standard.

A Framework for the Information Classification in ISO 27005 Standard

An Investigation of Knowledge Sharing Behaviors of Students on an Online Community of Practice