Bioinformatics Cloud Security

摘要

When dealing with personal data, it is important to remember the implications of relaxed security. Without implementing the correct security measures, user's personal data can be vulnerable against an assortment of different malicious attacks and actions. Personal user data can come in many different forms, so it can be easy to forget what is valuable to protect and what is not when developing a complex system. When the Bioinformatics Cloud (BioCloud) project was being developed initially, security was given a lower priority in place of a working, demo-able product. Now that the project has developed far enough to work in some degree, security measures must be implemented to protect the most personal of all data, DNA. This study is to evaluate different security measures and implementations to protect against both accidental or malicious attempts at obtaining user data in a cloud platform.