https://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&feed=atom&action=historyInformation Security Guide - Revision history2024-03-28T16:50:02ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.38.2https://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4505&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: /* RCS is an Information System */ Minor text mods to broaden the impact of permissions and added a clarifying example.2013-03-30T04:43:26Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">RCS is an Information System: </span> Minor text mods to broaden the impact of permissions and added a clarifying example.</span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The Research Computing System provides controlled access to data and applications maintained on the system. Every data and application resource has an access control list which specifies allowed interactions with the resource. All requests to access data and applications are verified against the resource access control list to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ensure only </del>allowed interactions are permitted.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</ins>The Research Computing System provides controlled access to data and applications maintained on the system. Every data and application resource has an access control list which specifies allowed interactions with the resource. All requests to access data and applications are verified against the resource access control list to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">assure all </ins>allowed interactions are permitted.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A person is granted access to the Research Computing System according to their affiliations with the University. Individuals are assigned a unique identity to account for their use of the system and the resources which they maintain on the system. Valid credentials must be presented to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interact with </del>resources maintained on the system. Individuals may be associated with groups which reflect their affiliations with the University or with other individuals using the system. Group membership can be used to expand or constrain access to data and application resources maintained on the system.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">:</ins>A person is granted access to the Research Computing System according to their affiliations with the University. Individuals are assigned a unique identity to account for their use of the system and the resources which they maintain on the system. Valid credentials must be presented to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">modify </ins>resources maintained on the system. Individuals may be associated with groups which reflect their affiliations with the University or with other individuals using the system. Group membership can be used to expand or constrain access to data and application resources maintained on the system<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4467&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Add statement on operating principles of the RCS2013-03-16T03:31:12Z<p>Add statement on operating principles of the RCS</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly an expression of ideas in the virtual spaces of the computational platforms that surround us. The computer is our most versatile scientific instrument. The computer allows us to explore any abstraction we can envision and to build pathways to our discoveries. They help us by supporting development of a reproducible process. Good process lets us explore our virtual worlds with confidence. It underlies our trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained from our virtual worlds.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly an expression of ideas in the virtual spaces of the computational platforms that surround us. The computer is our most versatile scientific instrument. The computer allows us to explore any abstraction we can envision and to build pathways to our discoveries. They help us by supporting development of a reproducible process. Good process lets us explore our virtual worlds with confidence. It underlies our trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained from our virtual worlds.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At UAB, we are building a Research Computing System that supplies researchers with HPC, storage, web, and virtual infrastructure to facilitate investigation, develop research applications, and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this system. In other words, we are building a scientific instrument to support the virtual expressions of modern science.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At UAB, we are building a Research Computing System <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(RCS) </ins>that supplies researchers with HPC, storage, web, and virtual infrastructure to facilitate investigation, develop research applications, and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this system. In other words, we are building a scientific instrument to support the virtual expressions of modern science.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialogs about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies "information types" and "information systems" as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialogs about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies "information types" and "information systems" as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4185&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Minor word choice improvements to easy reading the text2012-07-16T16:23:56Z<p>Minor word choice improvements to easy reading the text</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly an expression of ideas in the virtual spaces of the computational platforms that surround us. The computer is our most versatile scientific instrument. The computer allows us to explore any abstraction we can envision and to build pathways to our discoveries. They help us by supporting development of a reproducible process. Good process lets us explore our virtual worlds with confidence. It underlies our trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained from our virtual worlds.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly an expression of ideas in the virtual spaces of the computational platforms that surround us. The computer is our most versatile scientific instrument. The computer allows us to explore any abstraction we can envision and to build pathways to our discoveries. They help us by supporting development of a reproducible process. Good process lets us explore our virtual worlds with confidence. It underlies our trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained from our virtual worlds.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At UAB, we are building a Research Computing System that supplies researchers with HPC, storage, web, and virtual infrastructure to facilitate investigation and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this system. In other words, we are building a scientific instrument to support the virtual expressions of modern science.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>At UAB, we are building a Research Computing System that supplies researchers with HPC, storage, web, and virtual infrastructure to facilitate investigation<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, develop research applications, </ins>and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this system. In other words, we are building a scientific instrument to support the virtual expressions of modern science.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Background ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Background ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dialog </del>about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dialogs </ins>about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>information types<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>information systems<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" </ins>as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td></tr>
</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4168&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Clarifications on last sentence in intro2012-06-18T17:15:17Z<p>Clarifications on last sentence in intro</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The guide will document the function of the Research Computing System to ensure the trust, the security, of the information involved in the conduct of science on this platform.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">information security </ins>guide will document the function of the Research Computing System to ensure the trust, the security, of the information involved in <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and derived from </ins>the conduct of science on this platform.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Background ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Background ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td></tr>
</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4167&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Tuned wording of introduction to introduce the subject of information security and bring into context for the work we are doing2012-06-18T17:13:27Z<p>Tuned wording of introduction to introduce the subject of information security and bring into context for the work we are doing</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of scientific research and discovery. Our confidence <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">comes </del>from <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">building </del>trust in the processes used to conduct experiments, analyze results, and create knowledge. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Information </del>security in the research domain <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is about following processes that allow us to reproduce our discoveries</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of scientific research and discovery. Our confidence <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">originates </ins>from <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our </ins>trust in the processes used to conduct experiments, analyze results, and create knowledge. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The processes we construct to support reproducible discovery are the foundation of information </ins>security in the research domain.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a virtual </del>expression of ideas <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </del>the computational platforms that surround us. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Our computers are </del>our most versatile scientific <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">instruments</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">They allow </del>us to explore any abstraction we can envision and build pathways to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">discovery</del>. They <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also </del>help us by supporting development of reproducible <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">processes</del>. Good process <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can help </del>us <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </del>explore our virtual worlds with confidence <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and build </del>trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an </ins>expression of ideas <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in the virtual spaces of </ins>the computational platforms that surround us. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The computer is </ins>our most versatile scientific <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">instrument</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The computer allows </ins>us to explore any abstraction we can envision and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to </ins>build pathways to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">our discoveries</ins>. They help us by supporting development of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a </ins>reproducible <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">process</ins>. Good process <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lets </ins>us explore our virtual worlds with confidence<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. It underlies our </ins>trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">from our virtual worlds</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">We </del>are building a Research Computing System that supplies HPC, storage, web, and virtual <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">machine tools to researchers </del>to facilitate investigation and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">platform</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Our construction can be viewed as an effort </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">build scientific instrumentation and </del>support the virtual expressions of modern science. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> </del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">At UAB, we </ins>are building a Research Computing System that supplies <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">researchers with </ins>HPC, storage, web, and virtual <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">infrastructure </ins>to facilitate investigation and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">system</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In other words, we are building a scientific instrument </ins>to support the virtual expressions of modern science.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will leverage definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of scientific research and discovery. Our confidence comes from building trust in the processes used to conduct experiments, analyze results, and create knowledge. Information security in the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">realm of </del>research is about following processes that allow us to reproduce our discoveries.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of scientific research and discovery. Our confidence comes from building trust in the processes used to conduct experiments, analyze results, and create knowledge. Information security in the research <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">domain </ins>is about following processes that allow us to reproduce our discoveries.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly a virtual expression of ideas on the computational platforms that surround us. Our computers are our most versatile scientific instruments. They allow us to explore any abstraction we can envision and build pathways to discovery. They also help us by supporting development of processes <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">that can be reliably reproduced</del>. Good process can help us to explore our virtual worlds with confidence and build trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Modern science is increasingly a virtual expression of ideas on the computational platforms that surround us. Our computers are our most versatile scientific instruments. They allow us to explore any abstraction we can envision and build pathways to discovery. They also help us by supporting development of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">reproducible </ins>processes. Good process can help us to explore our virtual worlds with confidence and build trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We are building a Research Computing System that supplies HPC, storage, web, and virtual machine tools to researchers to facilitate investigation and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this platform. Our construction can be viewed as an effort to build scientific instrumentation and support the virtual expressions of modern science. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>We are building a Research Computing System that supplies HPC, storage, web, and virtual machine tools to researchers to facilitate investigation and enable collaboration. This system is being designed to promote and support processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this platform. Our construction can be viewed as an effort to build scientific instrumentation and support the virtual expressions of modern science. </div></td></tr>
</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4165&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Rewrite to focus on scientific instrument angle2012-06-15T22:25:26Z<p>Rewrite to focus on scientific instrument angle</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the </del>scientific <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">enterprise</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This enterprise is central </del>to <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">UAB's mission </del>and the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Research Computing System is designed to facilitate that enterprise. As such, development </del>of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the Research Computing System </del>is <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">focused on promoting and supporting </del>processes that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this platform</del>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of scientific <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">research and discovery</ins>. <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Our confidence comes from building trust in the processes used </ins>to <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">conduct experiments, analyze results, </ins>and <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">create knowledge. Information security in </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">realm </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">research </ins>is <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">about following </ins>processes that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">allow us to reproduce our discoveries</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">favor </del>definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Modern science is increasingly a virtual expression of ideas on the computational platforms that surround us. Our computers are our most versatile scientific instruments. They allow us to explore any abstraction we can envision and build pathways to discovery. They also help us by supporting development of processes that can be reliably reproduced. Good process can help us to explore our virtual worlds with confidence and build trust in the experiments we conducted and the results we obtained.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">leverage </ins>definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td></tr>
</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4164&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Fix fips link, add FAQ2012-06-14T17:13:34Z<p>Fix fips link, add FAQ</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of the scientific enterprise. This enterprise is central to UAB's mission and the Research Computing System is designed to facilitate that enterprise. As such, development of the Research Computing System is focused on promoting and supporting processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this platform.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Confidence in the meaning, disposition, and provenance of information is at the heart of the scientific enterprise. This enterprise is central to UAB's mission and the Research Computing System is designed to facilitate that enterprise. As such, development of the Research Computing System is focused on promoting and supporting processes that ensure confidence in the experiments conducted and results obtained using this platform.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will favor definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will favor definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[</ins>[wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]</ins>]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div></td></tr>
</table>Jpr@uab.eduhttps://docs.uabgrid.uab.edu/w/index.php?title=Information_Security_Guide&diff=4163&oldid=prevJpr@uab.edu: Intro to information security2012-06-14T16:59:04Z<p>Intro to information security</p>
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To facilitate dialog about the Research Computing System and its development across a wide variety of groups and interests, this document will favor definitions and standards for information security being developed by NIST. According to NIST, information security is the protection of information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction in order to provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This term is defined in ([wikipedia:FIPS-199|FIPS-199]), the primary standards document that all participants in this dialog should be familiar with. FIPS-199 identifies information types and information systems as the two primary classes used to document information security requirements. Additionally, it defines three areas of information security "confidentiality, integrity, and availability" that are used to guide the implementation of appropriate process. FIPS-199 is a short document, and the heart of the matter is covered in the first 6 pages. The remaining content is an appendix defining the referenced terms.</div>Jpr@uab.edu