At present, network users have to manage a set of authentication credentials (usually a username/password pair) for every service with which they are registered. Single Sign-On (SSO) has been proposed as a solution to the usability, security and management implications of this situation. Under SSO, users authenticate themselves only once to an entity termed the ‘Authentication Service Provider’...

Many Chinese websites (relying parties) use OAuth 2.0 as the basis of a single sign-on service to ease password management for users. Many sites support five or more different OAuth 2.0 identity providers, giving users choice in their trust point. However, although OAuth 2.0 has been widely implemented (particularly in China), little attention has been paid to security in practice. In this pape...

Social trust is one of the foundations for social order in society. Trust in any organization is affected by various factors such as customer satisfaction, service quality, staff skill and taking into account the customer orientation and service receivers’ satisfaction principles. This research seeks to study the sociological study of social trust of the insured population of social security or...

Background One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments. The HTP has three phases: the first phase (launched in May 5, 2014) is focused on reducing OOP payments for inpatient services; the second phase (launched in May 22, 2014) is focused on primary healthcare (PHC) and the...

Background The National Health Security Scheme was established 10 years ago with the document finance model in communicating the transfer of budget from payer to providers. This model was found to be inefficient in transferring (17 billion Baht delay) or not knowing the amount transferred (33 billion Baht bad debt). A new ageing account model was developed 3 years ago to improve efficiency in f...

Background and Objectives: Social Security Organization (SSO) is the second largest organization to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) in providing health care services in Iran. In recent years the gap between the SSO’s resources and expenditures has shown an unprecedented growing trend due to the rapidly increasing demand. Continuation of this trend may lead ...

A Site Security Officer (SSO) who is a network security staff that responds to alarms from an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), is always faced with the critical problem of low response time when the network becomes big. Even a skilled SSO is hard-pressed and less productive when collecting and analyzing IDS output manually as the frequency of intrusion increases. In this work, an Expert System...

payment of retirement pension is one of the most important responsibilities and services of the social security organization, which provides support and comfort to the elderly. this research aims to examine the factors that affect this important service with the hope of expanding it. this research was conducted between october 2012,and august  2013using descriptive and survey techniques and gat...