Conveners
Networking, Security, Infrastructure & Operations I
- David KELSEY ()
Dr
Alessandra Scicchitano
(GEANT)
3/15/16, 2:00 PM
Networking, Security, Infrastructure & Operations
Oral Presentation
National Identity Federations for Research and Education have been globally emerging during the last decade together with a growing interest from different research communities in using federated access. Some challenges though still prevent the wide usage of this approach. The lack of seamless integration for example among the different AAIs operated by the various research collaborations and...
Dr
Eisaku Sakane
(National Institute of Informatics)
3/15/16, 2:20 PM
Networking, Security, Infrastructure & Operations
Oral Presentation
Among certification authorities (CAs) in an academic PKI trust federation such as IGTF (Interoperable Global Trust Federation), most of academic organizations that operate CA install by themselves the CA equipment in their building. To keep CA trustworthy, it is necessary to maintain such CA equipment and to obtain the special operators. Consequently, the high cost of CA operation weighs...
Slavek Licehammer
(Masaryk University)
3/15/16, 2:40 PM
Networking, Security, Infrastructure & Operations
Oral Presentation
Every service uses an authorization process to determine the access rights of individuals. Lots of services do authorization decisions only during the authentication process and by that the information about access rights is valid for the whole session. The other common approach is to run authorization process for each request from the user.
Both of the described approaches are commonly...
Ms
Hannah Short
(CERN)
3/15/16, 3:00 PM
Networking, Security, Infrastructure & Operations
Oral Presentation
The expanding network of Higher Education and Research facilities through inter-federation, whilst extremely valuable for collaboration and online security at large, exposes an inviting new vector of attack for malicious actors. A single compromised account may provide an entry point to this global network of resources linking thousands of organisations. How can we coordinate a response...
