Boilerplate for IRB applications
The Office of Dental Informatics at the School of Dentistry provides support for the security of
IRB-related electronic data. The data are stored on secure servers provided by the Office of Dental
Informatics. To ensure a robust information security system, the Office of Dental Informatics has established
a number of policies and SOPs. These have been reviewed and documented and include: authorization, authentication,
back-up, data recovery and disaster recovery, among others. These policies and SOPs protect the School's information
technology infrastructure and all forms of information stored in it, including research data. They
are regularly reviewed by the U-M Office of Audits (for information security), U-M Health System Compliance Office
(for HIPAA compliance and security) and IT Security Services (for all forms of information technology security).
Access to data requires a U-M uniqname and School of Dentistry password. The uniqname and School of Dentistry password have
defined privileges that provide authorization to specific systems.
Other security strategies employed by the Office of Dental Informatics, such as two perimeter firewalls (hardware),
IP Sec filters (software firewall) and network peak flow analysis (monitoring for usual network traffic)
provide further protection.