Paper Info
Title
Semantic Security: Specification and Enforcement of Semantic Policies for Security-driven Collaborations
Abstract
Collaborative research can often have demands on liner-grained security that go beyond the authentication-only paradigm as typified by many e-Infrastructurc/Grid based solutions Supporting finer-grained access control is often essential for domains where the specification and subsequent enforcement of authorization policies is needed The clinical domain is one area in particular where this is so However It is the case that existing security authorization solutions are fragile, inflexible and difficult to establish and maintain As a result they often do not meet the needs of real world collaborations where robustness and flexibility of policy specification and enforcement, and ease of maintenance are essential In this paper we present results of the JISC funded Advanced Grid Authorisation through Semantic Technologies (AGAST) project (www nesc ac uk/hub/protects/agast) and show how semantic-based approaches to security policy specification and enforcement can address many of the limitations with existing security solutions These are demonstrated into the clinical trials domain through the MRC funded Virtual Organisations for Trials and Epidemiological Studies (VOTES) project (www nesc ac uk/hub/projects/votes) and the epidemiological domain through the JISC funded SeeGEO project (www nesc ac uk/hub/projects/seegeo)
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.3233/978-1-60750-027-8-201
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
authentication,authorization,OWL,RDF,policy specification,policy enforcement
Data mining,Semantic technology,Semantic security,Authentication,Computer security,Access control,Enforcement,Security policy,Medicine,RDF,Grid
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
147
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Richard O. Sinnott131750.09
Tom Doherty200.34
Norman Gray3214.85
Jeff Lusted400.34