Formal security policy implementations in network firewalls.
Journal Article
Macfarlane, R., Buchanan, W. J., Ekonomou, E., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., & Lo, O. (2012)
Formal security policy implementations in network firewalls. Computers and Security, 31(2), 253-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2011.10.003
Network security should be based around security policies. From high-level natural language, non-technical, policies created by management, down to device and vendor specific ...
Integrating assisted living with primary and secondary health care.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., Lo, O., Uthmani, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, May)
Integrating assisted living with primary and secondary health care. Paper presented at Data Handling in Health and Social Care: Striking the balance between confidentiality, security and information sharing, Edinburgh
This presentation outlines the Cloud4Health platform.
Cloud-based e-Health System.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Thuemmler, C., Lo, O., & Ekonomou, E. (2011, September)
Cloud-based e-Health System. Paper presented at BCS Health Informatics, Edinburgh
This paper presents the future of health care system, which uses the newly developed security infrastructure.
Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML
Conference Proceeding
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2016)
Sticky policy enabled authenticated OOXML. In Conference Proceedings of the IEEE Technically Sponsored SAI Computing Conference 2016. https://doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2016.7556117
This paper proposes a secure document sharing construction, which addresses confidentiality and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data sharing. The goal of this res...
Cloud-based identity and identity meta-data: secure and control own data in globalization era.
Journal Article
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., Cruickshank, P., & Ekonomou, E. (2014)
Cloud-based identity and identity meta-data: secure and control own data in globalization era. International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare, 3, https://doi.org/10.4018/ijrqeh.2014010105
This paper proposes a new identity, and its underlying meta-data, model. The approach enables secure spanning of identity meta-data across many boundaries such as health-care,...
Sticky-Policy enabled authenticated OOXML for Health Care
Conference Proceeding
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2015)
Sticky-Policy enabled authenticated OOXML for Health Care. In Proceedings of BCS Health Informatics Scotland 2015 Conferencehttps://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HIS2015.3
This paper proposes a secure medical document sharing construction, which addresses confidentiality and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data protection issues. Th...
Cloud4Health.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., & Lo, O. (2012, May)
Cloud4Health. Paper presented at Symposium on the Future of e-Health, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh
The cloud4health platform focuses on creating a next generation infrastructure which aims to integrate assisted living with primary and secondary health care, in order to redu...
Sticky policies approach within cloud computing
Journal Article
Spyra, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Ekonomou, E. (2017)
Sticky policies approach within cloud computing. Computers and Security, 70, 366-375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2017.07.005
This paper discusses a secure document sharing approach, which addresses confidentiality, integrity and authenticity concerns related to cloud-based data sharing. This researc...
A Privacy preserving method using privacy enhancing techniques for location based services
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Kwecka, Z., & Ekonomou, E. (2012)
A Privacy preserving method using privacy enhancing techniques for location based services. Mobile Networks and Applications, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-012-0362-6
Two of the major changes within computing, at the present time, are the move towards service-oriented architectures and the increasing usage of mobile devices to access these ...
Patient centric health care: an integrated and secure, cloud-based, e-Health platform.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, February)
Patient centric health care: an integrated and secure, cloud-based, e-Health platform. Paper presented at BCS Branch Meeting, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum
There are many issues related to health care infrastructure within the UK, including the lack of integration of data between the different parts of the health and social care ...