title: The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) Security Infrastructure.
abstract: Security is a high priority issue in medical domain, because many institutions performing biomedical research work with sensitive medical data regularly. This issue becomes more complicated, when it is desirable or needed to access and analyze data in a multi-institutional setting. In the NCI cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program, several security issues were raised that existing security technologies could not address. Considering caBIG is envisioned to span a large number of cancer centers and investigator laboratories, these issues pose considerable challenge. In this paper we present these issues and the infrastructure, referred to as GAARDS, which has been developed to address them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Langella
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Oster
authors.forename: Shannon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hastings
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Siebenlist
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ervin
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Permar
authors.forename: Tahsin
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kurc
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saltz
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016494:Computer Security; D003628:Database Management Systems; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009369:Neoplasms