Enabling Secure and Effective Biomedical Data Sharing through Cyberinfrastructure Gateways

TL;DR

This paper presents the Dynaswap cybersecurity architecture that enhances secure biomedical data sharing by integrating advanced security frameworks and tools within cyberinfrastructure gateways for research and education.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive, trustworthy security architecture combining multiple security frameworks and tools tailored for biomedical data sharing in cyberinfrastructures.

Findings

Validated in life-science research environments

Supports dynamic role and data hierarchies

Integrates blockchain and biometric security tools

Abstract

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.