TY - EJOU AU - Alfakeeh, Ahmed S. AU - Almalawi, Abdulmohsen AU - Alsolami, Fawaz Jaber AU - Abushark, Yoosef B. AU - Khan, Asif Irshad AU - Bahaddad, Adel Aboud S. AU - Agrawal, Alka AU - Kumar, Rajeev AU - Khan, Raees Ahmad TI - Hesitant Fuzzy-Sets Based Decision-Making Model for Security Risk Assessment T2 - Computers, Materials \& Continua PY - 2022 VL - 70 IS - 2 SN - 1546-2226 AB - Security is an important component in the process of developing healthcare web applications. We need to ensure security maintenance; therefore the analysis of healthcare web application's security risk is of utmost importance. Properties must be considered to minimise the security risk. Additionally, security risk management activities are revised, prepared, implemented, tracked, and regularly set up efficiently to design the security of healthcare web applications. Managing the security risk of a healthcare web application must be considered as the key component. Security is, in specific, seen as an add-on during the development process of healthcare web applications, but not as the key problem. Researchers must ensure that security is taken into account right from the earlier developmental stages of the healthcare web application. In this row, the authors of this study have used the hesitant fuzzy-based AHP-TOPSIS technique to estimate the risks of various healthcare web applications for improving security-durability. This approach would help to design and incorporate security features in healthcare web applications that would be able to battle threats on their own, and not depend solely on the external security of healthcare web applications. Furthermore, in terms of healthcare web application's security-durability, the security risk variable is measured, and vice versa. Hence, the findings of our study will also be useful in improving the durability of several web applications in healthcare. KW - Web applications; security risk; security durability; hesitant-based decision-making approach DO - 10.32604/cmc.2022.020146