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My Computer Ate My Data, Changed My Students' Grades and Stole My Money
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What all faculty need to know about securing their information
March 16, 2012

Past Programs

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Real-Time Crowd Support for People with Disabilities
Jeff Bigham
University of Rochester
November 15, 2011 

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Cyber Operations and National Security
A Panel Discussion
October 20, 2011

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CISO vs. Adversary
Healthcare Security Investment Game
July 7, 2011 

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Adventures in SCADA
TROOPERS 2011
April 30, 2011

 

Newsletter - Summer/Fall 2010

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Institute for Security, Technology, and Society
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755 USA
info.ists@dartmouth.edu

Access Control
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Thread 1 Team Members

Effective use of healthcare IT requires that the right parties (such as clinicians, patients, and insurance adjusters) be able to access the information and computational resources they need, in a timely manner. However, because the information involved is sensitive and personal, healthcare enterprises need to manage this access carefully. Permitting inappropriate disclosure or modification of this data is socially irresponsible and possibly life threatening to patients – and also exposes the enterprises to legal, regulatory and economic repercussions. Besides the obvious internal risk of users having too much access (and abusing it) or too little (threatening patient care), we see many broader system-level risks: users may find the official IT system so unusable as to move their access and processing outside it (creating security, management, and reliability nightmares), or engage in behavior that defaults to all personnel having maximal access (also creating such nightmares).

Research

The Thread 1 team has collaborated with clinical liaisons and a number of industry partners to advance their research.  Several publications are available through the TISH publications database (see the TISH homepage) and below:

Education and Outreach

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Team

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The Thread 1 team is led by Professor Sean Smith (Computer Science).  Other team members have included Graduate Students Gabe Weaver and Rebecca Shapiro and Undergraduates Jack Bowman and Amy Zhang.

Last Updated: 1/25/12