Enhancing Trust in the Intercloud: Addressing Identity and Security Challenges
As cloud computing evolves, establishing trust in the Intercloud framework becomes crucial. Current projects like IEEE P2302 aim to tackle identity and resource access issues in diverse network environments. With a plethora of participants and potential attackers, strong authentication and tailored trust mechanisms are essential. This initiative focuses on creating a peer-to-peer identity management system addressing operational and legal requirements, ultimately facilitating a secure and reliable cloud computing experience. Key objectives include identifying gaps in existing infrastructures and developing a prototype over 15 months.
Enhancing Trust in the Intercloud: Addressing Identity and Security Challenges
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What is Missing? • How do I know who is who? • Not all one enterprise (e.g., AD) • Not a single customer-provider relationship (e.g., static provisioning) • Potentially many legitimate participants • Nearly unlimited attackers • Identity work somewhat addresses this, but… • What does it mean to the visited network to have a particular identity? • Resource access and manipulation • Strong authentication, yet how to do authorization?
Current Attempts: IEEE P2302 • P2302 is IEEE Intercloud effort • Simple inter-cloud messaging protocol • Broker services for naming, directories, and data marshaling • Requires everyone to agree on everything for every application • Rich individual trust model, but limited in practice • Huawei-led to last year
P2302 Approaches Centralized Federated ? Nice Research Project • All requests and data held by neutral third-party broker • Looking towards IANA or IGTF as a model or home • But enterprises do not really trust their data in their own networks, no less in someone else’s
Project: Intercloud Identity • Work out semantics for cloud federation • Policy-driven • Provide tailored trustworthy space for cloud computing • Cryptographic foundation for intercloud data assurance • Tailored directory access for resources and data • Goal: Apply to IEEE P2302, IETFSCIM, IRTF SDNRG
Plan: Intercloud Identity • Evaluate state of the art and gap analysis with CBPP, Law Center, Department of Government • Interim Deliverable: Report on gaps • Prototype peer-to-peer identity management system with tailored trust that meets operational & legal requirements • Time: 15 months • Budget: $120,000; $65,000 to get started
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