What data security standards will STAR METRICS use for data storage?
The STAR METRICS data will be housed at the NIH Data Center and adhere to Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) guidelines. The NIH Data Center provides a secure computing environment suitable for applications and data categorized at the low or moderate security level per FIPS Publication 199, Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information System. The NIH Data Center will be able to provide a secure computing environment suitable for applications and data categorized at the high security level soon. The NIH CIT has implemented appropriate security controls conforming to the FISMA to protect your systems. CIT maintains physical and host system security controls and procedures to protect the computer hardware, applications, and data from improper access by unauthorized individuals and to ensure continued availability.
