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Knowledge Organization Systems to Support Cyber-Resilience in Medical Smart Home Environments

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While real-time/near real-time healthcare solutions for the elderly are becoming increasingly popular in medical smart homes, the IT infrastructure and the sensitive information collected using sensor networks can be exposed to cyberattacks. The management of such systems requires 24/7/365 monitoring and partial automation. However, the wide variety of data formats used by the various vendors’ products in medical smart homes cannot be used directly by software agents for data aggregation and data fusion, let alone to support the overall cybersecurity posture. This can be enabled by capturing the semantics of the components of the sensor networks used in these settings. Network anomalies, sensor failure, and sensor data tampering can be detected automatically by performing automated reasoning. In this chapter, we present an overview of knowledge organization systems in a medical smart home environment. We discuss the cyberattack types that occurred in the medical smart home setting and the role of legislation and standards. Finally, we discuss information security countermeasures for cyber-resilience to improve overall the Medical IoT infrastructure.

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    Photoplethysmogram.

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    Electrocardiography.

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    Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

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    Computed Tomography.

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    https://www.cyber.gov.au/acsc/view-all-content/advisories/2020-013-ransomware-targeting-au-stralian-aged-care-and-healthcare-sectors.

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    Therapeutic Goods Administration.

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    https://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/medical-device-cyber-security-guidance-industry.pdf.

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    Radio Frequency Identification.

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    Wireless Sensor Networks.

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Bughio, K.S., Sikos, L.F. (2023). Knowledge Organization Systems to Support Cyber-Resilience in Medical Smart Home Environments. In: Ahmed, M., Haskell-Dowland, P. (eds) Cybersecurity for Smart Cities. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24946-4_5

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