Security and Trust Management for Virtual Organisations: GridTrust Approach

The GridTrust Security Framework (GSF) offers security and trust management for the next generation Grids (NGG). It follows a vertical approach for Grid security from requirements level right down to application and middleware levels. New access control models for collaborative computing, such as the usage control model (UCON), are implemented for securing the Grid systems. The GSF is composed of security and trust services and tools provided at the middleware and Grid foundation middleware layers. GSF addresses three layers of the NGG architecture: the Grid application layer, the Grid service middleware layer, and the Grid foundation layer. The framework is composed of security and trust services and tools provided at the middleware and Grid foundation middleware layers. GSF provides policy-driven autonomic access control solutions that provide a continuous monitoring of the usage of resources by users.