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Revision as of 15:18, 26 March 2012
Contents
Overview
The goal of Data e-Infrastructure Policy-oriented Security Facilities is to protect gCube infrastructure resources from unauthorized accesses. The facilities, composing a complete security module, are built on SOA3.
Service Oriented Authorization, Authentication and Accounting (SOA3) is a security framework providing security services as web services, according to Security as a Service (SecaaS) research topic [1]. It is based on standard protocols and technologies, providing:
- an open and extensible architecture
- interoperability with external infrastructures and domains, obtaining, if required, also so-called Identity Federation
- total isolation from gCore: zero dependencies in both the directions
Key Features
- Security as a Service
- Authentication and Authorization provided by web services called by resource management modules
- Username/password authentication model
- the user is not requested to have personal digital certificates
- Attribute Based Access Control
- a generic way to manage access: access control decisions are based 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 scope and provides well-defined services
- Support to standards
- all the operations delivered by the facilities are based on recognized standards
- High performance
- the design and architectural choices have been made paying great attention to performances
Subsystems
GCube Policy Oriented Security Facility is composed by the following subsystems: