With the development of information technology,the Internet of Things(IoT)has gradually become the third wave of the worldwide information industry revolution after the computer and the Internet.The application of the...With the development of information technology,the Internet of Things(IoT)has gradually become the third wave of the worldwide information industry revolution after the computer and the Internet.The application of the IoT has brought great convenience to people’s production and life.However,the potential information security problems in various IoT applications are gradually exposed and people pay more attention to them.The traditional centralized data storage and management model of the IoT is easy to cause transmission delay,single point of failure,privacy disclosure and other problems,and eventually leads to unpredictable behavior of the system.Blockchain technology can effectively improve the operation and data security status of the IoT.Referring to the storage model of the Fabric blockchain project,this paper designs a data security storage model suitable for the IoT system.The simulation results show that the model is not only effective and extensible,but also can better protect the data security of the Internet of Things.展开更多
Patient privacy and data protection have been crucial concerns in Ehealthcare systems for many years.In modern-day applications,patient data usually holds clinical imagery,records,and other medical details.Lately,the ...Patient privacy and data protection have been crucial concerns in Ehealthcare systems for many years.In modern-day applications,patient data usually holds clinical imagery,records,and other medical details.Lately,the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT),equipped with cloud computing,has come out to be a beneficial paradigm in the healthcare field.However,the openness of networks and systems leads to security threats and illegal access.Therefore,reliable,fast,and robust security methods need to be developed to ensure the safe exchange of healthcare data generated from various image sensing and other IoMT-driven devices in the IoMT network.This paper presents an image protection scheme for healthcare applications to protect patients’medical image data exchanged in IoMT networks.The proposed security scheme depends on an enhanced 2D discrete chaotic map and allows dynamic substitution based on an optimized highly-nonlinear S-box and diffusion to gain an excellent security performance.The optimized S-box has an excellent nonlinearity score of 112.The new image protection scheme is efficient enough to exhibit correlation values less than 0.0022,entropy values higher than 7.999,and NPCR values around 99.6%.To reveal the efficacy of the scheme,several comparison studies are presented.These comparison studies reveal that the novel protection scheme is robust,efficient,and capable of securing healthcare imagery in IoMT systems.展开更多
Internet-of-Things(IoT)extends the power of Internet and bring tremendous opportunity to academia and industry.However the security and data privacy challenges become major obstacles for its adoption and deployment.To...Internet-of-Things(IoT)extends the power of Internet and bring tremendous opportunity to academia and industry.However the security and data privacy challenges become major obstacles for its adoption and deployment.To address these issues,an encryption and security scheme is proposed for a lightweight database which is suitable for embedded systems with limited storage and computing resources.The scheme encrypts data are in both storage and used memory.So it can prevent sensitive data leakage from untrusted applications,zero-day-vulnerability and malicious attacks for the lightweight database.The prototype of the proposed scheme was presented and the feasibility and effectiveness was evaluated.The experimental results demonstrate the scheme is practical and effective.展开更多
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation Project of China under Grant 16BTQ085.
文摘With the development of information technology,the Internet of Things(IoT)has gradually become the third wave of the worldwide information industry revolution after the computer and the Internet.The application of the IoT has brought great convenience to people’s production and life.However,the potential information security problems in various IoT applications are gradually exposed and people pay more attention to them.The traditional centralized data storage and management model of the IoT is easy to cause transmission delay,single point of failure,privacy disclosure and other problems,and eventually leads to unpredictable behavior of the system.Blockchain technology can effectively improve the operation and data security status of the IoT.Referring to the storage model of the Fabric blockchain project,this paper designs a data security storage model suitable for the IoT system.The simulation results show that the model is not only effective and extensible,but also can better protect the data security of the Internet of Things.
基金funded by the Deanship of Scientific Research at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University,through the Research Funding Program,Grant No.(FRP-1443-11).
文摘Patient privacy and data protection have been crucial concerns in Ehealthcare systems for many years.In modern-day applications,patient data usually holds clinical imagery,records,and other medical details.Lately,the Internet of Medical Things(IoMT),equipped with cloud computing,has come out to be a beneficial paradigm in the healthcare field.However,the openness of networks and systems leads to security threats and illegal access.Therefore,reliable,fast,and robust security methods need to be developed to ensure the safe exchange of healthcare data generated from various image sensing and other IoMT-driven devices in the IoMT network.This paper presents an image protection scheme for healthcare applications to protect patients’medical image data exchanged in IoMT networks.The proposed security scheme depends on an enhanced 2D discrete chaotic map and allows dynamic substitution based on an optimized highly-nonlinear S-box and diffusion to gain an excellent security performance.The optimized S-box has an excellent nonlinearity score of 112.The new image protection scheme is efficient enough to exhibit correlation values less than 0.0022,entropy values higher than 7.999,and NPCR values around 99.6%.To reveal the efficacy of the scheme,several comparison studies are presented.These comparison studies reveal that the novel protection scheme is robust,efficient,and capable of securing healthcare imagery in IoMT systems.
基金National Key Research and Develop Plan ofChina (2018YFF0215601-3).
文摘Internet-of-Things(IoT)extends the power of Internet and bring tremendous opportunity to academia and industry.However the security and data privacy challenges become major obstacles for its adoption and deployment.To address these issues,an encryption and security scheme is proposed for a lightweight database which is suitable for embedded systems with limited storage and computing resources.The scheme encrypts data are in both storage and used memory.So it can prevent sensitive data leakage from untrusted applications,zero-day-vulnerability and malicious attacks for the lightweight database.The prototype of the proposed scheme was presented and the feasibility and effectiveness was evaluated.The experimental results demonstrate the scheme is practical and effective.
