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...
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...
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 ...
E-Health: chances and challenges of distributed, service oriented architectures
Journal Article
Thuemmler, C., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., Ekonomou, E., & Khedim, A. S. (2012)
E-Health: chances and challenges of distributed, service oriented architectures. Journal of cyber security and mobility, 37,
Societies are undergoing unprecedented demographic and socio-economical changes on a pace that has never been experienced before. Health care models are in transition to remai...
An Integrated Cloud-based Healthcare Infrastructure.
Conference Proceeding
Ekonomou, E., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2011)
An Integrated Cloud-based Healthcare Infrastructure. In 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), (532-536). https://doi.org/10.1109/CloudCom.2011.80
We present a cloud-based healthcare system that integrates a formal care system (DACAR) with an informal care system (Microsoft HealthVault). The system provides high levels o...
Information sharing around child protection.
Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Uthmani, O., Lewis, R., Steyven, A., Fan, L., Thuemmler, C., …Lawson, A. (2012, June)
Information sharing around child protection. Paper presented at Information Sharing in the Public Sector, Edinburgh
Background This presentation focuses on creating a scaleable, robust and secure information architecture for social and health care. At its core is the sa.FIRE (Secure Analysi...