Urvashi

Work place: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jamia Hamdard University, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi 110062, India

E-mail: urvi.bhanu@gmail.com

Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2859-604X

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Biography

Urvashi, Urvashi is a Research Scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi, India. Her research interests include contemporary developments and emerging challenges in computer science and related interdisciplinary domains. She actively contributes to scholarly research and academic publications. Urvashi completed her undergraduate studies at PGDAV College, University of Delhi, and earned her Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from the University of Delhi. She has 8 years of teaching experience at the University of Delhi, where she has been involved in academic instruction and student mentoring in the field of computer science and related disciplines. Her research interests are focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), with an emphasis on exploring emerging technologies, connected systems, and their applications in solving real-world challenges. She is interested in contributing to research and innovation in IoT-driven solutions and advancing knowledge in the area of intelligent and interconnected computing systems.

Author Articles
FL-EZTF: A Privacy-Preserving Federated Deep Learning Framework with Enhanced Zero Trust for Healthcare IoT Security

By Urvashi Parul Agarwal Kamlesh Kumar Raghuvanshi Jawed Ahmed

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2026.04.22, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2026

Smart healthcare IoT systems are vulnerable to cyber threats as they deal with sensitive patient information. Problems such as privacy, scalability, and delayed response to threats in distributed healthcare environments challenge centralized security approaches. To mitigate the security challenges of cloud-edge healthcare IoT systems, this paper presents FL-EZTF, a privacy-preserving, Federated Deep Learning and Enhanced Zero Trust Framework. The framework combines federated learning, Enhanced Zero Trust Architecture (E-ZTA), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). In this framework, lightweight deep learning models are developed locally at hospitals and various edge nodes without the need to transfer sensitive medical data. In place of raw data, model updates are sent conveniently through a trustaware federated learning process. Simultaneously, E-ZTA performs continuous authentication, micro-segmentation, and access control to rapidly contain threats. The framework is assessed using CIC-IoT-2023, IoT-23, and WESAD datasets. The experimental results show improved accuracy in detection, lower rates of false positives, a significant reduction in the latency of decisions, and enhanced containment as compared to centralized and traditional federated learning.

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