Authentication and Authorization in Server Systems for Bio-Informatics

TL;DR

This paper evaluates current authentication and authorization techniques in server systems for bio-informatics, comparing them with best practices to improve security and access control.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of existing authentication and authorization methods used in bio-informatics server systems.

Findings

Current techniques vary in security effectiveness

Best practices improve access control and security

Recommendations for adopting universal authentication standards

Abstract

Authentication and authorization are two tightly coupled and interrelated concepts which are used to keep transactions secure and help in protecting confidential information. This paper proposes to evaluate the current techniques used for authentication and authorization also compares them with the best practices and universally accepted authentication and authorization methods. Authentication verifies user identity and provides reusable credentials while authorization services stores information about user access levels. These mechanisms by which a system checks what level of access a particular authenticated user should have to view secure resources is controlled by the system