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ists newsletter summer 2012

 

ISTS Information Pamphlet


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Past Programs  

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Maintaining Grid Resilience with the Adoption of Smart Grid Technologies
Jeff Dagle
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
January 23, 2013

 Gustman

"Cloud Archives" at the University of Southern California: The USC Shoah Foundation and the USC Digital Repository
Sam Gustman
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
October 26, 2012

Nippert-Eng

Privacy: How we do it and when it matters most
Christena Nippert-Eng
Illinois Institute of Technology
September 26, 2012

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

News

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: 1/2/13