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Revision as of 21:32, 20 March 2012
Contents
Overview
Data e-Infrastructure Policy-oriented Security Facilities protect gCube infrastructure resources from unauthorized accesses. The facilities compose a complete security module built on SOA3 framework. SOA3 (Service Oriented Authorization, Authentication and Accounting) is a security framework providing security services as web services. It can be considered as part of Security as a Service (SecaaS) research topic [1]. SOA3 is based on standard protocols and technologies provides:
- an open and extensible architecture
- possibility to interoperate with external infrastructures and domain, obtaining, if required, also Identity Federation
- total separation from gCore: zero dependencies in both the directions
Key Features
- Security as a Service
- Authentication and Authorization are services called by resource management modules in order to secure the resources
- Username/password authentication model
- The user is not requested to maintain personal digital certificates
- Attribute Based Access Control
- The most general way to manage accesses: the access control is performed basing the decision on one or more attributes
- Support to different categories of attributes
- User related attributes (e.g. roles, groups...) and environment related attributes (e.g. time, date...)
- Modularity
- SOA3 is composed by different modules: each module has a well defined functionality and provides well defined services
- Support to standards
- All the operation performed by the facilities are standard based
- High performance
- The design and architectural choices have been made with great attention to the performance
Subsystems
GCube Policy Oriented Security Facility is composed by the following subsystems: