NDLI: Access Control Strategies for Virtualized Environments in Grid Computing Systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Squicciarini, A.C. Bertino, E. Goasguen, S.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput. Sci., Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (Squicciarini, A.C.; Bertino, E.)
Abstract	The development of adequate security solutions and in particular of authentication and authorization techniques for grid computing systems is a challenging task. Challenges arise from the heterogeneity of users, the presence of multiple security administration entities, the heterogeneity of security techniques used at the various grid hosts, the scalability requirements, and the need for high-level policies concerning resource sharing. Recent trends, like accessing grid through science gateways and the use of virtual organizations (VO) for managing user communities, further complicate the problem of security for grid computing systems. Currently, the GSI component developed as part of the Globus Toolkit, the de-facto standard for grid infrastructures is not fully suited to meet those challenges. The main drawback of such an approach is that it relies on a low level identity-based authorization scheme. .A low-level access control policy maps a user's identity (distinguished name) to a local account. Such approach does not scale and does not address many of the outlined requirements. We thus need security solutions that go beyond the simple solutions currently in use. The goal of this paper is to make a first step towards such solutions. The paper discusses and analyzes authentication and authorization solutions that better fit novel grid infrastructures characterized by virtual organizations and science gateways. Some of these solutions derive from ongoing work in current grid infrastructure projects; others are new proposals that we think worthy of discussion. In particular, we analyze the solutions proposed as part of the GridShib and the VO Privilege projects
Starting Page	48
Ending Page	54
File Size	300722
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769528104
ISSN	10710483
DOI	10.1109/FTDCS.2007.10
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-03-21
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Access control Grid computing Authorization Authentication Computer science Scalability Computer security Resource management Standards development Proposals
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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