Enabling Secure and Effective Biomedical Data Sharing through Cyberinfrastructure Gateways
This work provides a secure cyberinfrastructure for researchers in life sciences and health informatics to share biomedical data, addressing the critical need for trustworthy data handling in sensitive domains.
The Dynaswap project developed a secure workflow protection architecture for cyberinfrastructures, deployable on virtual machines like those provided by JetStream. This architecture supports dynamic roles and data hierarchies, integrating existing security frameworks with advanced tools to enable secure biomedical data sharing.
Dynaswap project reports on developing a coherently integrated and trustworthy holistic secure workflow protection architecture for cyberinfrastructures which can be used on virtual machines deployed through cyberinfrastructure (CI) services such as JetStream. This service creates a user-friendly cloud environment designed to give researchers access to interactive computing and data analysis resources on demand. The Dynaswap cybersecurity architecture supports roles, role hierarchies, and data hierarchies, as well as dynamic changes of roles and hierarchical relations within the scientific infrastructure. Dynaswap combines existing cutting-edge security frameworks (including an Authentication Authorization-Accounting framework, Multi-Factor Authentication, Secure Digital Provenance, and Blockchain) with advanced security tools (e.g., Biometric-Capsule, Cryptography-based Hierarchical Access Control, and Dual-level Key Management). The CI is being validated in life-science research environments and in the education settings of Health Informatics.