Federated Deception Intelligence and the ASKOS Solution for Cyber-Resilient Healthcare Infrastructures

Healthcare infrastructures face escalating cybersecurity risks caused by legacy systems, connected IoMT devices, and complex data-sharing environments. Conventional intrusion detection and SIEM systems provide limited protection against zero-day and lateral-movement attacks. This paper presents the ASKOS architecture, a federated and deception-enhanced security framework that integrates Conpot honeypots with federated machine learning and software-defined networking (SDN) to enable privacy-preserving, adaptive cyber defense. By combining deception telemetry, distributed anomaly detection, and risk-aware orchestration, ASKOS delivers an intelligent and compliant security layer that can be implemented across healthcare infrastructures.