Pervasive Information Security and Privacy Developments: Trends and Advancements

Pervasive Information Security and Privacy Developments: Trends and Advancements

Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 596

ISBN13: 9781616920005|ISBN10: 1616920009|EISBN13: 9781616920012|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616923709

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-000-5

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Privacy and security concerns are at the forefront of research and critical study in the prevalence of information technology.

Pervasive Information Security and Privacy Developments: Trends and Advancements compiles research on topics such as technical, regulatory, organizational, managerial, cultural, ethical, and human aspects of information security and privacy. This reference offers methodologies, research frameworks, theory development and validation, case studies, simulations, technological architectures, infrastructure issues in design, and implementation of secure and privacy preserving initiatives.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface

Chapters

Chapter 1

Examining an Individual’s Perceived Need for Privacy and Security: Construct and Scale Development (pages 1-13)

Taner Pirim, Tabitha James, Katherine Boswell, Brian Reithel, Reza Barkhi

Security and privacy issues have risen in importance as the use of technology increases. Newly developed technological devices for asset security can only be successful if people are willing to use them. Gaining an understanding of...

Chapter 2

Forty Years of Federal Legislation in the Area of Data Protection and Information Security (pages 14-23)

John Cassini, B. Dawn Medlin, Adriana Romaniello

Historically, the United States has attempted to address the issues of an individual’s right to information privacy and security through legislative actions. More specifically, the execution of legislation that addresses information...

Chapter 3

The Impact of Privacy Legislation on Patient Care: A Canadian Perspective (pages 24-43)

Jeff Barnett

This chapter looks at how privacy legislation in Canada may interfere with patient care and the use of electronic health records. A review of the literature shows that legislation across Canada is not uniform and varies to the degree...

Chapter 4

A Privacy Protection Model for Patient Data With Multiple Sensitive Attributes (pages 44-60)

Tamas S. Gal, Zhiyuan Chen, Aryya Gangopadhyay

The identity of patients must be protected when patient data is shared. The two most commonly used models to protect identity of patients are L-diversity and K-anonymity. However, existing work mainly considers data sets with a...

Chapter 5

Protecting Patient Information in Outsourced Telehealth Services: Bolting on Security When it Cannot be Baked in (pages 61-76)

Patricia Y. Logan, Debra Noles

Hospitals have increasingly employed outsourcing to lower the cost of healthcare delivery and improve efficiency and quality, thereby, enabling more focus on core competencies of patient care, teaching, and research. Outsourcing...

Chapter 6

Obtaining Patient’s Information from Hospital Employees through Social Engineering Techniques: An Investigative Study (pages 77-89)

B. Dawn Medlin, Joseph Cazier

Social engineering can be briefly defined as the obtaining of information through deceptive methods. The intention of the action is to acquire information that will be of use in order to gain access to a system or use of information...

Chapter 7

Effects of Individual Trust in Broadcast Media and the Internet on Privacy-Risking Uses of E-Health: An Expanded Analysis (pages 90-104)

E. Vance Wilson, David D. Dobrzykowski, Joseph A. Cazier

People claim to be concerned about information privacy on the Internet, yet they frequently give out personal information to online vendors and correspondents with whom they have little, if any, prior experience. This behavior is...

Chapter 8

Safeguarding the Privacy of Electronic Medical Records (pages 105-115)

Jingquan Li, Michael J. Shaw

The continued growth of healthcare information systems (HCIS) promises to improve quality of care, reduce harmful medical errors, and streamline the entire healthcare system. But the resulting dependence on electronic medical records...

Chapter 9

Using Statistical Texture Analysis for Medical Image Tamper Proofing (pages 116-125)

Samia Boucherkha, Mohamed Benmohamed

This chapter discusses an approach for both authentication of medical images and confidentiality for the related textual data in an online medical application paradigm. The image authentication is achieved in a soft manner through a...

Chapter 10

Privacy Inference Disclosure Control with Access-Unrestricted Data Anonymity (pages 126-148)

Zude Li

This chapter introduces a formal study on access-unrestricted data anonymity. It includes four aspects: (1) it analyzes the impacts of anonymity on data usability; (2) it quantitatively measures privacy disclosure risks in practical...

Chapter 11

Designing Efficient Security Services Infrastructure for Virtualization Oriented Architectures (pages 149-171)

Dr. Eng. Syed Naqvi

Virtualization technologies are emerging as a promising solution for managing the rapidly growing complexities of modern distributed ICT infrastructures. However, a mainstream operational concern for these virtualization oriented...

Chapter 12

Architectural Support for Enhancing Critical Secrets Protection in Chip-Multiprocessors (pages 172-183)

Lu Peng, Li Yang, Balachandran Ramadass

Security has been considered as an important issue in processor design. Most of the existing designs of security handling assume the chip as a single secure unit. However, such assumption is vulnerable to exposure resulted from a...

Chapter 13

Memory Based Anti-Forensic Tools and Techniques (pages 184-199)

Hamid Jahankhani, Elidon Beqiri

Computer forensics is the discipline that deals with the acquisition, investigation, preservation and presentation of digital evidence in the court of law. Whereas anti-forensics is the terminology used to describe malicious...

Chapter 14

Life Cycle Pattern Study of Malicious Codes (pages 200-215)

June C. Wei, Randall Reid, Hongmei Zhang

This chapter investigates the patterns of malicious code attacks based on monthly data of the top 10 virus shares from 1998 to 2005. Three parameters were identified for study, overall pattern of the attack, the number reentries into...

Chapter 15

Trust-Based Usage Control in Collaborative Environment (pages 216-230)

Li Yang, Chang Phuong, Andy Novobilski, Raimund K. Ege

Most access control models have formal access control rules to govern the authorization of a request from a principal. In pervasive and collaborative environments, the behaviors of a principal are uncertain due to partial...

Chapter 16

Will it be Disclosure or Fabrication of Personal Information?: An Examination of Persuasion Strategies on Prospective Employees (pages 231-254)

Xun Li, Radhika Santhanam

Individuals are increasingly reluctant to disclose personal data and sometimes even intentionally fabricate information to avoid the risk of having it compromised. In this context, organizations face an acute dilemma: they must...

Chapter 17

Computer Security Practices and Perceptions of the Next Generation of Corporate Computer Users (pages 255-265)

S. E. Kruck, Faye P. Teer

The purpose of this chapter is to present the results of an empirical study of the computer security practices and perceptions of the next generation of corporate computer users, undergraduate university students. The authors...

Chapter 18

Design and Implementation of a Framework for Assured Information Sharing Across Organizational Boundaries (pages 266-292)

Bhavani Thuraisingham, Yashaswini Harsha Kumar, Latifur Khan

In this chapter we have designed and developed a framework for sharing data in an assured manner in case of emergencies. We focus especially on a need to share environment. It is often required to divulge information when an...

Chapter 19

A Secure and Trustful e-Ordering Architecture (TOES) for Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) (pages 293-308)

Spyridon Papastergiou, Despina Polemi

Although various European Union (EU) directives have established the proper legal framework for the provision of a trustful, legally accepted cross border transaction via electronic means, the consumers are still hesitant to use...

Chapter 20

SEACON: An Integrated Approach to the Analysis and Design of Secure Enterprise Architecture–Based Computer Networks (pages 309-331)

Surya B. Yadav

The extent methods largely ignore the importance of integrating security requirements with business requirements and providing built-in steps for dealing with these requirements seamlessly. To address this problem, a new approach to...

Chapter 21

Spam Classification Based on E-Mail Path Analysis (pages 332-355)

Palla Srikanth, Dantu W. Ram, Cangussu João

Email spam is the most effective form of online advertising. Unlike telephone marketing, email spamming does not require huge human or financial resources investment. Most existing spam filtering techniques concentrate on the emails’...

Chapter 22

A Decentralized Security Framework for Web-Based Social Networks (pages 356-387)

Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Andrea Perego

The wide diffusion and usage of social networking Web sites in the last years have made publicly available a huge amount of possible sensitive information, which can be used by third-parties with purposes different from the ones of...

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