Improving Incident Response in Big Data Ecosystems by Using Blockchain Technologies

Moreno, Julio; Serrano, Manuel A.; Fernández, Eduardo B.; Fernández‐Medina, Eduardo

doi:10.3390/app10020724

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“…It appears that the importance of supply chain integration has featured more prominently on the agenda of the food industry recently because of aspects such as the occurrence of severe food safety incidents like the E. coli 0104 outbreak in 2011, which was the deadliest bacterial foodborne outbreak in Europe. It is not yet clear whether new technologies, such as blockchain or smart packaging, can support transparency and traceability for the regular food business activities, as well as for responding to food safety incident responses (Astill et al , 2019; Bechtsis et al , 2019; Chen et al , 2020; Moreno et al , 2020; Song et al , 2020).…”

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Interdisciplinary challenges associated with rapid response in the food supply chain

van Beusekom – Thoolen,

Holmes,

Jansen

et al. 2023

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Purpose This paper aims to explore the interdisciplinary nature of coordination challenges in the logistic response to food safety incidents while distinguishing the food supply chain positions involved. Design/methodology/approach This adopts an exploratory qualitative research approach over a period of 11 years. Multiple research periods generated 38 semi-structured interviews and 2 focus groups. All data is analysed by a thematic analysis. Findings The authors identified four key coordination challenges in the logistics response to food safety incidents: first, information quality (sharing information and the applied technology) appears to be seen as the biggest challenge for the response; second, more emphasis on external coordination focus is required; third, more extensive emphasis is needed on the proactive phase in the logistic response; fourth, a distinct difference exists in the position’s views on coordination in the food supply chain. Furthermore, the data supports the interdisciplinary nature as disciplines such as operations management, strategy and organisation but also food safety and risk management, have to work together to align a rapid response, depending on the incident’s specifics. Research limitations/implications The paper shows the need for comprehensively reviewing and elaborating on the research gap in coordination decisions for the logistic response to food safety incidents while using the views of the different supply chain positions. The empirical data indicates the interdisciplinary nature of these coordination decisions, supporting the need for more attention to the interdisciplinary food research agenda. The findings also indicate the need for more attention to organisational learning, and an open and active debate on exploratory qualitative research approaches over a long period of time, as this is not widely used in supply chain management studies. Practical implications The results of this paper do not present a managerial blueprint but can be helpful for practitioners dealing with aspects of decision-making by the food supply chain positions. The findings help practitioners to systematically go through all phases of the decision-making process for designing an effective logistic response to food safety incidents. Furthermore, the results provide insight into the distinct differences in views of the supply chain positions on the coordination decision-making process, which is helpful for managers to better understand in what phase(s) and why other positions might make different decisions. Social implications The findings add value for the general public, as an effective logistic response contributes to consumer’s trust in food safety by creating more transparency in the decisions made during a food safety incident. As food sources are and will remain essential for human existence, the need to contribute to knowledge related to aspects of food safety is evident because it will be impossible to prevent all food safety incidents. Originality/value As the main contribution, this study provides a systematic and interdisciplinary understanding of the coordination decision-making process for the logistic response to food safety incidents while distinguishing the views of the supply chain positions.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinary challenges associated with rapid response in the food supply chain

van Beusekom – Thoolen,

Holmes,

Jansen

et al. 2023

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“…Security incident response procedure includes preparation, detection and analysis, containment, eradication and recovery, and postincident activities [12,13,14,28]. e Preparation stage establishes the incident response capability that will enable the organization to be ready to respond when an adverse event occurs.…”

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“…A case study on information systems and security incident response processes Moreno et al [28] IR processes enhanced by blockchain technologies Grispos et al [30] IR processes (follow-up stage) improved by Agile methodology…”

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Healthcare Security Incident Response Strategy - A Proactive Incident Response (IR) Procedure

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Aliyu

et al. 2022

Security and Communication Networks

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The healthcare information system (HIS) has become a victim of cyberattacks. Traditional ways to handle cyber incidents in healthcare organizations follow a predefined incident response (IR) procedure. However, this procedure is usually reactive, missing the opportunities to foresee danger on the horizon. Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) contains information on emerging attacks and should be ideally utilized to inform the IR procedure. However, current research shows that the IR has not been effectively informed by CTI, especially in healthcare organizations. This paper fills in this gap by proposing a proactive IR response procedure based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) IR methodology. This paper then presents the NHS WannaCry case study to demonstrate the use of the proposed IR methodology. We collate cyber security advisories from different CTI sources such as US/UK CERT to protect interconnected systems and devices from Ransomware attacks. This research provides novel insights into the IR in healthcare through embedding CTI advisories into IR processes and concludes that our proposed IR procedure can be used to counteract WannaCry Ransomware using CTI advisories. It has the significance of transforming the way of IR from reactive to proactive using the CTI in healthcare.

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“…Blockchain Solution for Data Integrity One of the most significant and prized features of blockchains is immutability [59]. Immutability simply refers to ensuring that the records in the chain have not been tampered with.…”

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Empirical Evaluation of Privacy Efficiency in Blockchain Networks: Review and Open Challenges

2021

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With the widespread of blockchain technology, preserving the anonymity and confidentiality of transactions have become crucial. An enormous portion of blockchain research is dedicated to the design and development of privacy protocols but not much has been achieved for proper assessment of these solutions. To mitigate the gap, we have first comprehensively classified the existing solutions based on blockchain fundamental building blocks (i.e., smart contracts, cryptography, and hashing). Next, we investigated the evaluation criteria used for validating these techniques. The findings depict that the majority of privacy solutions are validated based on computing resources i.e., memory, time, storage, throughput, etc., only, which is not sufficient. Hence, we have additionally identified and presented various other factors that strengthen or weaken blockchain privacy. Based on those factors, we have formulated an evaluation framework to analyze the efficiency of blockchain privacy solutions. Further, we have introduced a concept of privacy precision that is a quantifiable measure to empirically assess privacy efficiency in blockchains. The calculation of privacy precision will be based on the effectiveness and strength of various privacy protecting attributes of a solution and the associated risks. Finally, we conclude the paper with some open research challenges and future directions. Our study can serve as a benchmark for empirical assessment of blockchain privacy.

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Improving Incident Response in Big Data Ecosystems by Using Blockchain Technologies

Cited by 10 publications

References 36 publications

Interdisciplinary challenges associated with rapid response in the food supply chain

Interdisciplinary challenges associated with rapid response in the food supply chain

Healthcare Security Incident Response Strategy - A Proactive Incident Response (IR) Procedure

Empirical Evaluation of Privacy Efficiency in Blockchain Networks: Review and Open Challenges

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