UK e-Infrastructure Security & Access Management WG

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Group Manager

At the request of the Research Councils UK e-Infrastructure group, Janet established a working group from 2013-2016 to support those providing and using e-infrastructure services in achieving an approach that both protects services from threats and is usable by practitioners. More detail about the group can be found in the Terms of Reference

The Working Group published the following papers:

E-infrastructures: Access and Security (summary paper) (Jan 16)
Federated Authentication for e-Infrastructures (Sep 14)
Technical Security for e-Infrastructures (Nov 14)
Authorisation/Group Management for e-Infrastructures (May 15)
Policies for e-Infrastructures (Jan 16)
Accounting and e-Infrastructures (Nov 16)

Information about the Working Group's activities, as well as discussion documents, links and recommendations is linked under the following categories. Unless marked otherwise, all items are works-in-progress and we very much welcome your comments and contributions.

Meetings		Presentations
Case Studies	Discussions	Technologies
References

Andrew Cormack (WG Chair)

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Article

Case Studies

When working with AAI, it is sometimes useful to study how other projects have solved the same problems. Here is a list of projects that are doing work or have done relevant work and some core case studies from these.

EUDAT and Contrail

EUDAT is a FP7 project building a distributed "collaborative data infrastructure" (CDI in EUDAT-speak). EUDAT supports very diverse user communities which each have different ways of authenticating users and authorising them (and different models for authorisation).

The principal goals of access are:

case studies

use cases

Jens Jensen

13/10/14 10.10am