title: Network security and data integrity in academia: an assessment and a proposal for large-scale archiving.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Dov
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Greenbaum
authors.forename: Shawn M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: Morrow
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gerstein
mesh_terms: D001109:Archives; D016494:Computer Security / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends*; D023281:Genomics; D020407:Internet / Q000592:standards*