Secret shares to protect health records in Cloud-based infrastructures

Buchanan, William J; Ukwandu, Elochukwu; van Deursen, Nicole; Fan, Lu; Russell, Gordon; Lo, Owen; Thuemmler, Christoph

Abstract

Increasingly health records are stored in cloud-based systems, and often protected by a private key. Unfortunately the loss of this key can cause large-scale data loss. This paper outlines a novel Cloud-based architecture (SECRET) which supports keyless encryption methods and which can be used for the storage of patient information, along with supporting failover and a break-glass policy.

Citation

Buchanan, W. J., Ukwandu, E., van Deursen, N., Fan, L., Russell, G., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2016). Secret shares to protect health records in Cloud-based infrastructures. In 2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454589

• Conference Name: BCS Health Informatics 2015
• Start Date: Oct 7, 2015
• End Date: Oct 8, 2015
• Acceptance Date: Oct 7, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Apr 19, 2016
• Publication Date: Apr 19, 2016
• Deposit Date: Aug 28, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 30, 2017
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Book Title: 2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom)
• ISBN: 9781467383257
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454589
• Keywords: Health records; cybersecurity; privacy; cloud-based systems; SECRET
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/9032