NeIC 2015 sensitive data workshop
Organizer: Gard O Sundby Thomassen, (USIT)
Reporting: Gard O Sundby Thomassen, (USIT)
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Building, maintaining and serving IT-infrastructure for sensitive data
Serving research communities with storage, high-performance computing and software has until recently been dominated by IT-infrastructure for data with no privacy constraints. Projects with sensitive information (health, sex, religion, etc) have in general been small and hosted by offline desktops or within clinically approved hospital networks. The already present genomic data deluge combined with increased use of high definition images (fmri etc), video, sound and not at least the possibility of online data-harvesting (of sensitive data) covering thousands of respondents have changed the picture.
This workshop will try to cover many aspects of the challenges that follows these new and vast demands. The list of topics covered will include but not be restricted to :
- What is sensitive data
- User requirements vs IT-security
- Authorization and Authentication
- Harvesting sensitive data
- HPC for sensitive data
- Sharing sensitive data
- Storing and archiving sensitive data
- Registry data online
- Initiatives in the Nordics to meet the demands
- Coming solutions and challenges
This workshop is for anyone who does or plans to serve user groups having sensitive data, or for any member of these existing or coming user groups. We will try to enlighten you with regarding infrastructure initiatives, existing solutions, infrastructure architecture and caveats, solution planning and a small tour into the rules and regulations that systems must meet. Although these regulations are not in any way updated to face the reality of researchers being able to map the full genome of tens of people on one single sequencer in a matter of 6 days.
Confirmed speakers
- Gard Thomassen, PhD, leader of the services for sensitive data (TSD) at University Centre for IT, University of Oslo, Norway.
- Antti Pursula, project leader of the NeIC funded multinational Elixir project, Tryggve, aiming to connect infrastructure for sensitive data throughout the Nordics, CSC, Finland.
Agenda
TBD
Presentations
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