Researchers Struggle to Secure Data in an Insecure Age

Researchers Struggle to Secure Data in an Insecure Age
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Academe is well into the Internet age. On any given day, UNC-Chapel Hill will be hit with 30,000 attacks on its firewall, something its IT staff knows well. That's not an unusual number for a large institution. But when it comes to protecting research data from malicious parties, be they foreign spies, gangsters, or hackers—or, for that matter, a federal agency—universities often rely on policies that have changed little from the days when, to secure records, you put them in a locked cabinet behind a locked door.
"We're really just all waking up as a community to both the power and challenges of dealing with this," said Daniel K. Nelson, director of the university's Office of Human Research Ethics...............