The use of welfare technologies and ambient assisted living (AAL) as a basis for welfare services is increasing. These are ICT-based services that support users such as elderly and chronically ill people in carrying out their daily activities at home and enhancing their quality of life. Welfare services also represent huge opportunities for healthcare providers to increasingly providing their services while patients and users stay home, for example by the use of monitoring. However, the use of welfare technologies imposes strong requirements on non-functional properties such as privacy and data protection, confidentiality and integrity of information, trust, and so on.

The objective of the FRISK project is to develop a framework for risk management of welfare services, with particular focus on home monitoring of chronically ill people. This framework should support relevant stakeholders to understand the security issues involved and how to mitigate potential security risks. The group of stakeholders is highly heterogeneous and includes patients, next-of-kin, health service providers, welfare technology providers, infrastructure providers and governments.

More specifically, the FRISK framework will consist of the following artifacts: A method for security risk analysis of welfare services, including risk analysis guidelines and techniques; a framework for the modeling and documentation of security risks with support for adequately communicating the results to relevant stakeholders; prototype tools to support the security risk analysis and modeling.

FRISK is a SINTEF ICT project in collaboration between the three departments of Networked Systems and Services, Instrumentation, as well as Software Engineering, Safety and Security.