2/18/2004
Gio
AAAS 04
1
Trust and Security in Biological Databases:
Security When Collaborating.
Gio Wiederhold
Depts. of Computer Science, Electr. Eng. and Medicine
Stanford University, CA.
www-db.stanford.edu/people/gio.html
Security When Collaborating.
Gio Wiederhold
Depts. of Computer Science, Electr. Eng. and Medicine
Stanford University, CA.
www-db.stanford.edu/people/gio.html
Four related points will be made, they are not primarily
technological, since the the majority
of failures we experience in protecting privacy are caused by
misunderstanding of settings and objectives.
•Protection of Privacy
requires checking what goes OUT.
•Access control
mechanisms only keep bad guys from getting IN.
•In bioinformatics and
medicine there are many types of collaborators.
•Collaborators are
allowed in, but what they take out must be controlled.