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Enhancing Security and Geospatial Services in Social Sciences: NCeSS Project Overview

This document summarizes key aspects of the NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences project, presented during the SEE-GEO Meeting on March 20, 2008. The project, running from 2007 to 2009, includes significant work packages focusing on security (Work Package 3.2) and geospatial services (Work Package 4.1). Key contributors such as Rob Proctor and Xiaobo Yang are mentioned alongside deliverables including authentication reports and geospatial mapping services. The meeting also covered challenges in security and authorization, emphasizing the integration of Shibboleth and legacy systems for improved usability.

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Enhancing Security and Geospatial Services in Social Sciences: NCeSS Project Overview

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  1. NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Sciences Project: Security and Geospatial Services Andy Turner http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/ SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  2. Overview • Introduction • Work Package 3.2 • Work Package 4.1 • Feedback SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  3. Introduction • The NCeSS e-Infrastructure for the Social Science (NeSS) Project • http://www.ncess.ac.uk/services/ • 2007-01-01 to 2009-12-31 • Delayed start… • 7 Major Work Packages • Security and Geospatial Service Work undertaken in Work Packages 3.2 and 4.1 SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  4. Some Key People to Mention • Rob Proctor • Research Director • June Finch • Project Coordinator • Taken over from Mike Daw • Rob Allan • e-Science Expert • Xiaobo Yang • Portal Maintainer • Pascal Ekin • Geospatial Services and Grid Expert SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  5. Work Package 3.2:Security Authentication and Authorisation • People • Rob Proctor • Wei Jie • Deliverables • 3.2.1 Report: Review of Grid Authentication and Authorization Technologies • 3.2.2 Report: User Requirements • 3.2.3 Implementation? SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  6. Work Package 4.1Grid Enabling Simulation Models • Part done by PolicyGrid and MoSeS • MoSeS People • Mark Birkin • Andy Turner • Paul Townend • Junaid Arshad • OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  7. MoSeS NeSS Deliverables • 4.1.1 GLS Client • 4.1.2 Deployed GLS • 4.1.4 Geographical Mapping Service • 4.1.5 Workflows SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  8. Feedback • Questions/comments? SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  9. Acknowledgements and Thanks • Thanks to NCeSS researchers, collaborators and funders. • Thanks to all involved in the OGC GeoLinking Interoperability Experiment (especially the UK part of the consortium) • Thanks Paul Townend for work on a GLS Client which is to be delivered as part of Work Package 4.1 • Thanks Junaid Arshad for ongoing work on Security and delivery work on Work Package 4.1 • Thanks Wei Jie for sharing reports and presentation material for Work Package 3.2 • Thanks to all involved in eResearch for improving our hardware, software and data resources so that we can all do our bit to better understand and plan our future. • Thank you for listening! SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  10. SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  11. Authentication Issues • Adopting Shibboleth as the authentication infrastructure • Build federation for eSS community and define user attributes • Integration of Shibboleth with legacy authentication systems • Integration of Shibboleth with Sakai portal SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  12. Security Challenges • Simplicity • Avoiding complicated security procedures like authentication, delegation, etc • Usability • Providing web-based one stop environment to access a variety of social science resources like datasets, tools, services, wiki, blogs, etc. • Interoperability • Making legacy security systems interoperable • Manageability • Relieve administrator and service providers workload • Granularity • Providing flexibility for service providers to make fine-grained authorization for various resources SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

  13. Authorization Issues • Design & implement a fine-grained authorization infrastructure for grid-enabled datasets • Attribute-based fine-grained access control for OGSA-DAI b • ased social science datasets • Using Shibboleth, VOMS and PERMIS as authorization engine SEE-GEO Meeting 20th March 2008

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