Chapter 7
E-Health Threat Intelligence Within
Cyber-Defence Framework for E-Health
Organizations
Arif Sari and Joshua Sopuru
Abstract In recent years, scholarly work on cybersecurity in smart health has gained
substantial attention from both practitioners and scholars. This is primarily due to the
rapid growth in the field of information, communications and technology, protocols,
an important aspect of smart health communication infrastructure. The smart health
communication infrastructure is solely developed to provide data communication for
specific networks such as wireless body area network (WBAN) which is developed
for the health sector. The modern healthcare service delivery eliminates the need for
real-time inspection of elderly and attention-need patients; that is, medical experts can
monitor such people from a remote location through e-health communication infras-
tructure. The developed communication infrastructure is used by e-health organiza-
tions to store, process or transfer patient’s data which has high priority and requires
confidentiality. The infrastructure used by e-health organizations must restrict unau-
thorized access to patient data against any intruder. e-health organizations are a major
target for hackers as they hold a huge amount of private data as a source of wealth
of information. The proposed security solutions for e-health organizations require
specific policy developments and propose solutions for specific security layers. The
smart, scalable and adaptable solutions are proposed by researchers to overcome
several security challenges in e-health organizations. Some of the proposed solutions
provide open use and sharing of critical e-health data without compromising patients’
rights to privacy and confidentiality. The deployment of these solutions faces several
problems since hackers targeting network layer of these models. Development of
new attack methodologies and technological enhancements strengthens hackers to
attack with different motivations and compromise e-health organizations’ private
data. For this reason, a new security framework is necessary for e-health organiza-
tions’ communication infrastructure. The privacy of the patient’s health data must
be carefully addressed while developing a new framework. In order to maximize the
healthcare quality and minimize the e-health cost, the ultimate goal of this chapter is
A. Sari (B ) · J. Sopuru
Department of Management Information Systems, School of Applied Sciences, Girne American
University, Kyrenia, Cyprus
e-mail: arifsarii@gmail.com
J. Sopuru
e-mail: sopuru.senya.joshua@gmail.com
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