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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Blog Article

Managing Federated Authorisation for Research

Research, and particularly the on-line collaborative research referred to as e-science, creates a new challenge for federated access management systems. In teaching, the authoritative statement whether an individual is entitled to access an on-line resource comes from their home organisation: are they a member of that course? are they covered by that institutional licence? Thus it is natural to provide a source of authorisation attributes alongside, or even as part of, the home organisation's authentication systems.

Access Management

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17 June 2014 at 4:22pm

Andrew Cormack