14 papers · ranked by Valyu relevance
Deborah Stacey, Kenneth Wulff, Nidhip Chikhalla, Theresa Bernardo
Solving complex global problems involving data and data analysis can require data from both the public and private sectors. The sharing of data has traditionally been restricted to open data. To facilitate the use of both open and private data, a new data-sharing framework has been constructed as an extension to the…
Maged N Kamel Boulos, Andrew J Curtis, Philip AbdelMalik
This paper offers a state-of-the-art overview of the intertwined privacy, confidentiality, and security issues that are commonly encountered in health research involving disaggregate geographic data about individuals. Key definitions are provided, along with some examples of actual and potential security and…
Arsalan Shahid, Thien-An Ngoc Nguyen, M-Tahar Kechadi, Biswanath Samanta
'Biswanath Samanta'] Obesity is a major public health problem worldwide, and the prevalence of childhood obesity is of particular concern. Effective interventions for preventing and treating childhood obesity aim to change behaviour and exposure at the individual, community, and societal levels. However, monitoring and…
Sudha Devi Dorairaj, Thilagavathy Kaliannan
Cloud computing is renowned for delivering information technology services based on internet. Nowadays, organizations are interested in moving their massive data and computations into cloud to reap their significant benefits of on demand service, resource pooling, and rapid elasticity that helps to satisfy the…
Grant Kelly, Bruce McKenzie
We introduce the issues around protecting information about patients and related data sent via the Internet. We begin by reviewing three concepts necessary to any discussion about data security in a healthcare environment: privacy, confidentiality, and consent. We are giving some advice on how to protect local data.…
Nawsher Khan, Ibrar Yaqoob, Ibrahim Abaker Targio Hashem, Zakira Inayat + 4 more
'Zakira Inayat' 'Waleed Kamaleldin Mahmoud Ali' 'Muhammad Alam' 'Muhammad Shiraz' 'Abdullah Gani'] Big Data has gained much attention from the academia and the IT industry. In the digital and computing world, information is generated and collected at a rate that rapidly exceeds the boundary range. Currently, over 2…
Paul R. Burton, Madeleine J. Murtagh, Andy Boyd, James B. Williams + 12 more
'Edward S. Dove' 'Susan E. Wallace' 'Anne-Marie Tassé' 'Julian Little' 'Rex L. Chisholm' 'Amadou Gaye' 'Kristian Hveem' 'Anthony J. Brookes' 'Pat Goodwin' 'Jon Fistein' 'Martin Bobrow' 'Bartha M. Knoppers'] Motivation: The data that put the ‘evidence’ into ‘evidence-based medicine’ are central to developments in public…
Gayatri Kapil, Alka Agrawal, Abdulaziz Attaallah, Abdullah Algarni + 3 more
'Rajeev Kumar' 'Raees Ahmad Khan' 'Shlomi Dolev'] Hadoop has become a promising platform to reliably process and store big data. It provides flexible and low cost services to huge data through Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) storage. Unfortunately, absence of any inherent security mechanism in Hadoop increases…
Benjamin Aziz, Omar A. Alzubi
Multi-user computer environments pose potential threats to users data in organisations, in that unauthorised subsequent users who log on to the same computer could leak, alter or delete data belonging to users who previously logged in to the same computer. Such a threat is inspired by Locard’s exchange principle, which…
Tamer Abdel Latif Ali, Mostafa M. Elsherbini, Elochukwu Ukwandu
With the exponential growth of electronically transmitted and stored data, ensuring data privacy and security has become a fundamental challenge for organizations and enterprises. Traditional encryption methods have limitations, such as vulnerability to advanced attacks and high computational complexity, that lead to…
Jin Li, Wei Xiao, Chong Zhang
The extremely complex and dynamic digital environments of universities make them highly vulnerable to the risk of data breaches. This study empirically investigated the factors influencing data breach risks in the context of higher education, according to crime opportunity theory and routine activity theory. The data…
Murat Kantarcioglu, Elena Ferrari
As reports from McKinsey Global Institute (Mckinsey et al., ) and the World Economic Forum (Schwab, ) suggest, capturing, storing and mining “big data” may create significant value in many industries ranging from health care to government services. For example, McKinsey estimates that capturing the value of big data…
Björn Lundgren, Niklas Möller
This article proposes a new definition of information security, the ‘Appropriate Access’ definition. Apart from providing the basic criteria for a definition-correct demarcation and meaning concerning the state of security-it also aims at being a definition suitable for any information security perspective. As such, it…
Camille Cobb, Samuel Sudar, Nicholas Reiter, Richard Anderson + 2 more
Many organizations in the developing world (e.g., NGOs), include digital data collection in their workflow. Data collected can include information that may be considered sensitive, such as medical or socioeconomic data, and which could be affected by computer security attacks or unintentional mishandling. The attitudes…