JISC

Start date: 1 September 2004

End date: 31 August 2006

Funding programme: Core Middleware: Technology Development programme

Project website: http://sec.isi.salford.ac.uk/Projects.htm#DyCom

JISC theme(s): Access management, e-Research

Overview  

The main objective of this project is to contribute to enabling collaborations within dynamic Virtual Organisations serving different project teams, by building on top of leading-edge infrastructures and tools, namely: - the data grid technologies for data discovery and integration, - the GRASP Security Infrastructure, for distributed security enforcement, and - the PERMIS privilege management infrastructure for authorisation policy definition and enforcement. However, the added value of this project goes beyond and above the integration of these middleware layers. Firstly, each solution provides core functionality that is complementary to the others and its integration compensates for capabilities that are either absent or only partially addressed in the others. Secondly, addressing challenging scenarios necessitates joint extensions on top of their integration to address issues such as: separation of duties, distributed role assignment policy management and conditional authorisation based on project membership.