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Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things

Healthcare organisations are particularly vulnerable to information security threats and breaches due to the highly confidential nature of their patients’ medical information. Now, with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare that can vary from diagnostic devices to medical weara...

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Main Authors:	Premylla, Jeremiah, Ganthan, Narayana Samy, Bharanidharan, Shanmugam, Kannan, Ponkoodalingam, Sundresan, Perumal
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Published:	SpringerLink 2018
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General)
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spelling	my-inti-eprints.11642018-10-15T10:23:46Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/1164/ Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things Premylla, Jeremiah Ganthan, Narayana Samy Bharanidharan, Shanmugam Kannan, Ponkoodalingam Sundresan, Perumal H Social Sciences (General) Healthcare organisations are particularly vulnerable to information security threats and breaches due to the highly confidential nature of their patients’ medical information. Now, with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare that can vary from diagnostic devices to medical wearables, the industry has indeed become more vulnerable to malicious exploitation. One of the reasons that malicious attacks continue to occur at an alarming rate is due to the poor compliance of information security policies. This study investigates the issues that are associated with the causes for poor compliance within the private healthcare organisations in Malaysia. Data was collected through interviews from various healthcare respondents and findings have revealed that often, poor security compliance is mainly caused by behaviour issues and the severe lack of security awareness which requires immediate attention and mitigation. Potential measures to cultivate information security awareness and to safeguard the IoT-based medical devices are proposed to achieve compliance. SpringerLink 2018 Article PeerReviewed Premylla, Jeremiah and Ganthan, Narayana Samy and Bharanidharan, Shanmugam and Kannan, Ponkoodalingam and Sundresan, Perumal (2018) Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 843. ISSN 21945357 (print) 2194-5365 (online)
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spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) Premylla, Jeremiah Ganthan, Narayana Samy Bharanidharan, Shanmugam Kannan, Ponkoodalingam Sundresan, Perumal Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things
description	Healthcare organisations are particularly vulnerable to information security threats and breaches due to the highly confidential nature of their patients’ medical information. Now, with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare that can vary from diagnostic devices to medical wearables, the industry has indeed become more vulnerable to malicious exploitation. One of the reasons that malicious attacks continue to occur at an alarming rate is due to the poor compliance of information security policies. This study investigates the issues that are associated with the causes for poor compliance within the private healthcare organisations in Malaysia. Data was collected through interviews from various healthcare respondents and findings have revealed that often, poor security compliance is mainly caused by behaviour issues and the severe lack of security awareness which requires immediate attention and mitigation. Potential measures to cultivate information security awareness and to safeguard the IoT-based medical devices are proposed to achieve compliance.
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author	Premylla, Jeremiah Ganthan, Narayana Samy Bharanidharan, Shanmugam Kannan, Ponkoodalingam Sundresan, Perumal
author_facet	Premylla, Jeremiah Ganthan, Narayana Samy Bharanidharan, Shanmugam Kannan, Ponkoodalingam Sundresan, Perumal
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title	Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things
title_short	Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things
title_full	Potential Measures to Enhance Information Security Compliance in the Healthcare Internet of Things
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