Existing processes for patients' vital data collection require a great deal of labor work to collect, input and analyze the information. These processes are usually slow and errorprone, introducing a latency that prevents real-time data accessibility. This scenario restrains the clinical diagnostics and monitoring capabilities. We propose a solution to automate this process by using "sensors" attached to existing medical equipments that are inter-connected to exchange service. The proposal is based on the concepts of utility computing and wireless sensor networks. The information becomes available in the "cloud" from where it can be processed by expert systems and/or distributed to medical staff. The proof-of-concept design applies commodity computing integrated to legacy medical devices, ensuring costeffectiveness and simple integration.
One of the network and services management problems is security, either in preventing attacks and using computational mechanisms to protect data and systems or in administrative matters, which involves not just what needs to be protected, but also what security service levels will be delivered. This paper explores Service Level Agreements for Security or just Sec-SLAs. Is tried to provide an overview on the subject, the difficulties faced during the security metrics definition process and the Sec-SLA monitoring, as well as an analysis on the Sec-SLA role in new paradigms like cloud computing.Keywords -network and security management; security metrics; security service level agreement; cloud computing security
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