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Security is a popular topic of discussion these days,
not only in the world in general, but here at UTHSC-H
as well. As many of you know, we are in the midst of
a firewall implementation that will go a long way in
securing the University's information technology infrastructure.
Once this firewall becomes fully-implemented, the security
of our web servers and the applications running on them
will become extremely important because these web servers
will become the main "door ways" into our
campus networks. Most of the computers that will remain
accessible from the Internet will be web servers - thus,
if they are not already a favorite hacking target, they
will become even more popular to outsiders wanting to
get in to our internal systems.
Another issue that the University has to deal with
in the face of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA), as well as state and other
federal regulations, is the treatment of data that is
captured via web applications. If this data is considered
to be "personally identifiable" then it needs
to be securely transmitted and stored.
Hopefully, this article and the follow-up brown bag
luncheon in October will help you understand some of
the security issues that web developers and server administrators
face and some of the hacker techniques that are used
in breaching web applications. Due to time and space
constraints, I will briefly discuss several security
topics in this article, and then hopefully be able to
actually demonstrate some of these at the brown-bag
luncheon in October.
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