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Security, Accounting, and Assurance

Security, Accounting, and Assurance. Mahdi N. Bojnordi 2004 mnbojnordi@yahoo.com. Overview. Requirements What is expected from grids nowadays? Technologies Which are developed to provide the security. Current Practice Existing implementation of security services. Future Directions

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Security, Accounting, and Assurance

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  1. Security, Accounting, and Assurance Mahdi N. Bojnordi 2004 mnbojnordi@yahoo.com

  2. Overview • Requirements • What is expected from grids nowadays? • Technologies • Which are developed to provide the security. • Current Practice • Existing implementation of security services. • Future Directions • What is met by existing technologies insufficiently?

  3. Requirements • Authentication • The process of verifying the identity of a participant. • A verified entity called principal (e.g. user logged into system). • Authority to use delegation of identity. • Authorization • The process determining whether a particular operation is allowed. • Supporting delegation of authority.

  4. Requirements (cont’d) • Assurance • A form of authorization validating the authority of service provider (i.e. accreditation). • Allow the requester to decide whether a system is secure, reliable, etc. • Accounting • A means to manage the quotas.

  5. Requirements (cont’d) • Audit • Records what have been performed by a system on behalf of a principal. • Integrity and Confidentiality • Correct functioning of applications on the network. • Optional Security Services • Is all the described requirements needed for our system?

  6. Technologies • Cryptography • The most basic technology for distributed system security. System is conditioned on secrecy of key. • Symmetric & Asymmetric methods

  7. Technologies (cont’d) • Authentication • There is several authentication methods including assertion, passwords, encryption-based protocols. • Certification • Provides binding between a particular key and a principal. • This binding certified by a Certification Authority.

  8. Technologies (cont’d) • Distributed Authorization & Assurance • Privilege attribute certificates or assurance credentials. • Accounting • Distributed database • Intrusion Detection & Auditing • www.cert.org/archive/pdf/IEEE_IDS.pdf

  9. Current Practice • File Encryption, Email, and Public-Key Auth. • Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) • http://www.pgp.com • http://www.davidyaw.com/crypto/PGP.pdf • http://www.pgpi.org/cgi/download.cgi?filename=pgpsrc658win32.zip • Secure Sockets Layer & Transaction-Level Sec. • Embedded in most Web browser

  10. Current Practice (cont’d) • Kerberos

  11. Current Practice (cont’d) • IPSec, IPv6, and Virtual Private Networks • Disabling sniffers • Firewalls • A barrier at the boundary

  12. Future Directions • Group Communication • Better ways needed • Distributed Accounting • NetCheque

  13. Thank you

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