An overview of JISC's Access & Identity Management Programme given at the Identity Management Matters event at Aston University, 16 Nov 2010

1. Joint Information Systems Committee 1/29/2015 | | Slide 1Joint Information Systems Committee Supporting education and research
Access & Identity Management Programme
Identity Management Matters, Aston – 16 Nov 2010
Christopher Brown, c.brown@jisc.ac.uk
#jiscaim

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AIM – supporting Innovation
 How does AIM fit in to JISC?
16/11/2010 | Slide 2
Innovation Group
Content
e-Learning
Digital
Infrastructure
(eResearch &
Information
Environment)
OUT
JIR
Committee
AIM

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AIM – supporting Innovation
16/11/2010 | Slide 3
eResearch
Research
Comm
Eng
JIR
Committee
AIM
VRE
Research
Data
Mgmt
Research
Infrastruc
JSR
Committee

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AIM Programme
 1st Jan 2009 to 31st March 2011 (IdM Toolkit Pilots – Feb-Aug 2011)
 Focus:
– Process
– Policy
– Technology
 Objectives
– Build foundations for production systems that universities might adopt
in the future
– Prepare the sector for future developments
– Improve user experience
– Increase value and make AIM relevant to wider community
– Enable integrated systems architecture
– Develop practical tools to enable AIM
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Exploring Innovative
new areas

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AIM Programme
 UK Access Management Federation
– Support
– Expand
– Improve
– Increase uptake
 Funding
– Shibboleth Consortium (JISC, Internet2, SWITCH)
• Technical roadmap
• Governance mechanisms
• Operate open source project => Shibboleth Foundation?
– Extending Access Mgmt into BCE
– Publisher Support
– WAYFless URLs
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 Online and PDF versions
 Aimed at executive and technical staff in HE & FE
 Review, assess and improve performance of IdM
 Raise and maintain awareness, importance and key issues of IdM
 Launched UCISA/JISC conferences Spring 2010
 Website:
– www.identity-project.org
 Support:
– jisc-identity-management@jiscmail.ac.uk
AIM Projects – IdM Toolkit
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John Paschoud
LSE
Completed June 2010

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AIM Projects – IdM Toolkit Pilots
 Pilots (Feb – Aug 2011)
– £200K for 3-6 projects piloting the IdM Toolkit
 Institutional Benefits
– Institutions assess and review their IdM processes and policies
– Cost savings from using and acting on advice in the Toolkit
 Toolkit Benefits
– Tests the Toolkit through implementation
– Increase the uptake of the Toolkit
– Not a static Toolkit
– Further develop its usefulness
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 Previous projects
– GFIVO – common tools, set up wikis and blogs. Easy to set up
groups
– CUCKOO – institutional level: roll it out and use it
 GRAND (Granularity, Audit, N-tier and Delegation)
– 1) Granularity and Delegation
• How to most effectively structure Grouper
– 2) Audit and accounting
• How to process Shib and Grouper logs
– 3) N-tier
• How to do integrated auto login for Shib
• How to exploit Kerberos n-tier support in Shib
– http://research.ncl.ac.uk/grand
Benefits expected:
• Greater uptake of access control
• Scalable service
• Useful audit records
• Accounting ability
• Improved Login experience
• Practical n-tier integration
• Systems integration
AIM Projects - Grouper
16/11/2010 | Slide 8
Cal Racey
University of Newcastle
15 months

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AIM Projects – Usage Statistics
 RAPTOR (Retrieval, Analysis, and Presentation Toolkit for usage of
Online Resource)
– Software toolkit that will allow visualisation of e-resource usage to non-
technical people
– Also allow for publishing aggregated usage information to a federation
operator. Aimed at installing at the institutional level, but can
aggregate upwards
– Open source / open standards
– Fully documented and easy to set up/customise
– Collaborating with SWITCH and MIMAS
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Graham Mason
Cardiff Univ/Kidderminster
15 months

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AIM Projects – Web Services
 WSTIERIA (Web Services Tiered Internet Authorization )
– Make web services work with UK federation
– Investigating two approaches:
• using “façade” to handle authentication
• new Shib features to invoke web service between SPs
– Tested on two application domains:
• Geospatial web service (SEE-GEO)
• WebDAV (widely deployed remote file-access protocol layered on
HTTP)
– Community Benefit
• Web services interoperate with FAM
• Improve end-user experience by application componentization
– Real components need authorization
• Access presently hidden web services
– Discussing with MIMAS, SDSS, Shibboleth
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Fiona Culloch
EDINA
12 months

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AIM Projects – NGS
 A Proxy Credential Auditing Infrastructure for the UK e-Science National
Grid Service
– Develop proxy certificate auditing infrastructure that supports
monitoring/auditing use of proxy credential
• General usage monitoring
• Patterns of use and prediction of misuse
• Exploit and harden existing software for this
• Globus Incubator project
• Extensions to support
• VO-specific monitoring and usage
• Resource-specific monitoring and usage
– Demonstrate in numerous projects and roll out to NGS
 Case studies: nanoCMOS, ENROLLER, DAMES, NeISS projects
• includes usage of NGS, ScotGrid, TeraGrid, D‐Grid
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Wie Jie
Thames Valley University
15 months

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 SOFA (Service-Oriented Federated Authorization)
– Two broad goals:
• The facilitation of data aggregation across distributed,
heterogeneous data sources
• The provision of secure, assured data sharing
– sif: middleware framework that facilitates the secure sharing and
aggregation of data from disparate, heterogeneous data stores
– SOFA: an extension of sif that allows data owners to leverage their
access control paradigm of choice (RBAC, XACML support)
– Value:
• Low cost
• Limited impact
• Data ownership remains unchanged
– Applications: student administration; heart modelling; research into
Bipolar disorder
AIM Projects – Data sets
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Andrew Simpson
University of Oxford
12 months

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 SMART(Student-Managed Access to online Resources)
– There is a need for efficient, secure and usable access management
system that:
• supports data owners with sharing their data
• supports data consumers with accessing this data
– Develop online data management system based on User-Managed
Access (UMA) protocol
– Deploy at Newcastle to allow data to be shared more efficiently and
securely.
– Evaluate UMA at Newcastle
– Contribute to standardisation effort of UMA protocol by actively
participating in the UMA WG
Benefits:
• Participation in the UMA WG ensures that HE requirements
for access management are taken into consideration. It also
ensures that JISC and UK HE remains at the forefront of
developments in Web authorisation solutions
• Scenario for UMA use case shows applicability of the new
technology to HE environments
• Conducted research, experience and developed software for
UMA to be reused by AIM community within and outside UK
AIM Projects – UMA
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Maciej Machulak
University of Newcastle
15 months

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AIM Projects – ePortfolios
 eCert
– Giving you back control of your data
– To develop and test a suitable protocol for electronic certificates
– Maintain information privacy, ensure owner can have control over the usage of
their eCertificates
– Prevent unauthorized modification, able to be verified in a legal context
– Lifetime validation, independent from issuing body. Allow for verification
nationwide
– Easy to use while maintaining security controls, suit users with low IT skills,
both students and reviewers
– Can be accessed through the issuing organisations’ or any owner-preferred
ePortfolio, or be used as a standalone application
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Lisha Chen-Wilson
University of Southampton
15 months

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AIM Projects – Logins4Life
 Logins for Life
– Addresses the needs of a University to engage with users throughout
their lives.
– Create use cases, policies and recommendations for dealing with user
accounts throughout their changing roles while catering for existing
digital identities.
– Create a test environment which will demonstrate how these policies
can be delivered using open source tools.
– http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/demos
16/11/2010 | Slide 15
Matthew Slowe
Kent University
15 months

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AIM Projects – Social Net and Shib
 Identity and Access Management using Social Networking Technologies
– FOAF is an RDF (Resource Description Framework) vocabulary mainly
aimed at describing links between people and memberships
– produce a functional WebID (formerly FOAF+SSL) based
Authentication system for Shibboleth based IdP and an Authentication
and Authorisation system for Globus based grids
– Bridge to SAML/Shibboleth
• Converting information available in RDF into SAML attributes
– e.g. WebID URI into eduPersonPrincipalName
– Easy to derive membership of a project or (virtual) organisation based
on the FOAF relations
– Easier ad-hoc collaborations (potentially with people outside the
federation too)
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Mike Jones
University of Manchester
9 months

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AIM – International Links
 EUROPE
 TERENA (TNC2010, TF-EMC2, REFEDS) - NRENS
 Knowledge Exchange (JISC, SURFfoundation, DFG, DEF)
 USA
 Internet2
 Kantara
 Australasia
 AAF (Australian Access Federation)
 CAUDIT (The Council of Australian University Directors of Information
Technology)
 eWorks – Technical and Further Education (TAFE) sector
 MoRST (Ministry of Research, Science and Technology)

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 Blog: http://aimprog.jiscinvolve.org/
 Netvibes (#jiscaim): http://www.netvibes.com/jiscaim
 JISC AIM queries: c.brown@jisc.ac.uk
 Toolkit queries: jisc-identity-management@jiscmail.ac.uk
 Programme tag #jiscaim
AIM – Information
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19. Joint Information Systems Committee
AIM – The road ahead
 Reduced funding
 Concentrate on key areas of IdM
 Make a business case for money from committees
 More direct funding?
 Community building
16/11/2010 | Slide 19

20. Joint Information Systems Committee
AIM – Future?
16/11/2010 | Slide 20
 What should the AIM programme fund?

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