Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving.
A direct impediment to the optimal use of online databases is the increasing prevalence, severity, and toll of computer and network security incidents. Funding agencies should set up working groups that can provide essential services such as universal backup, archival storage, and mirroring of community resources, consistent with the key goal of security in academia: to preserve data and results for posterity.
Smith
Andrew
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Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Greenbaum
Dov
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Douglas
Shawn M
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Long
Morrow
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Gerstein
Mark
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D001109:Archives; D016494:Computer Security / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet / Q000592:standards*