Resources

"Best practice" for Registry project security in this area can be found in the following documents:

• Comprehensive discussion

  CDC's Community Immunization Registries Manual, Chapter 2: Confidentiality

  (http://www.cdc.gov/nip/registry/download/cirman2.pdf)

• Threat Assessment Methodology

  Noam H. Arzt, Information Security and Immunization Information Systems

  (http://www.hln.com/noam/cip/akc-secu.pdf)

• WWW Consortium's Web Security FAQ

  (http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/www-security-faq.html)

• Simon Garfinkel, Web Security & Commerce, Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly & Associates, 1997.

  (ISBN: 1-56592-269-7)

Other related information:

• Computer and Network Security Reference Index:
     http://www.telstra.com.au/info/security.html

• Firewalls: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/firewalls/

• CERT Coordination Center: http://www.cert.org/

• Virus Information: http://www.DataFellows.com/vir-info/