Proposal / Submission Type
Peer Reviewed Paper
Location
Daytona Beach, Florida
Start Date
26-5-2016 9:00 AM
Abstract
As healthcare data are pushed online, consumers have raised big concerns on the breach of their personal information. Law and regulations have placed businesses and public organizations under obligations to take actions to prevent such data breaches. Various vulnerabilities have been identified in healthcare enterprise environments, in which the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) remains to be a major vulnerability, which can be easily taken advantage of by determined adversaries. Thus, vulnerabilities of WBAN systems and the effective countermeasure mechanisms to secure WBAN are urgently needed. In this research, first, the architecture of WBAN system has been explored, and the vulnerabilities within the system have been identified and analyzed. After that, issues on existing federal regulations related to WBAN are discussed. Finally, scenarios are described where vulnerabilities, threats, and countermeasures are analyzed.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Bahena, Karina and Tu, Manghui, "WBAN Security Management in Healthcare Enterprise Environments" (2016). Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law. 4.
https://commons.erau.edu/adfsl/2016/thursday/4
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WBAN Security Management in Healthcare Enterprise Environments
Daytona Beach, Florida
As healthcare data are pushed online, consumers have raised big concerns on the breach of their personal information. Law and regulations have placed businesses and public organizations under obligations to take actions to prevent such data breaches. Various vulnerabilities have been identified in healthcare enterprise environments, in which the Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) remains to be a major vulnerability, which can be easily taken advantage of by determined adversaries. Thus, vulnerabilities of WBAN systems and the effective countermeasure mechanisms to secure WBAN are urgently needed. In this research, first, the architecture of WBAN system has been explored, and the vulnerabilities within the system have been identified and analyzed. After that, issues on existing federal regulations related to WBAN are discussed. Finally, scenarios are described where vulnerabilities, threats, and countermeasures are analyzed.
