The following tools provide fine-grained security for your data using public key cryptography and X.509 certificates:

• GAMA – Grid Account Management Architecture, GAMA, provides an end-to-end security infrastructure suitable for multi-institution collaborations with support for grid computing, cloud computing, and web portals. It makes grid portals easy to use, but maintains the security and delegation capabilities of GSI. This tool is heavily used in the BIRN Security capability.

• MyProxy – MyProxy is an online credential repository. You can store X.509 proxy credentials in the MyProxy repository, protected by a passphrase, for later retrieval over the network.

• User Registration Service/Certificate Authority – Because BIRN data services are distributed across many institutions, we provide a centralized registration mechanism for new users. This web-based registration service allows a user to become eligible to sign up to access data used by BIRN teams. They also gain access to BIRN’s infrastructure, software tools, data-sharing strategies and advisory services. The process also establishes BIRN-wide security credentials for new users.

• Credential Management – BIRN data services require security credentials for users to store or access data. The BIRN-wide credential service, accessed via a client tool on the user’s home system, provides a simple way for users to get a credential whenever they choose to access BIRN services or data.

• Group Policy Management – This service will enable BIRN user teams to create new user groups and control their membership. User teams also will be able to assign access control privileges for other BIRN services, such as data access and storage.

The following tools provide fine-grained security for your data using public key cryptography and X.509 certificates:

• GAMA – Grid Account Management Architecture, GAMA, provides an end-to-end security infrastructure suitable for multi-institution collaborations with support for grid computing, cloud computing, and web portals. It makes grid portals easy to use, but maintains the security and delegation capabilities of GSI. This tool is heavily used in the BIRN Security capability.

• MyProxy – MyProxy is an online credential repository. You can store X.509 proxy credentials in the MyProxy repository, protected by a passphrase, for later retrieval over the network.

• User Registration Service/Certificate Authority – Because BIRN data services are distributed across many institutions, we provide a centralized registration mechanism for new users. This web-based registration service allows a user to become eligible to sign up to access data used by BIRN teams. They also gain access to BIRN’s infrastructure, software tools, data-sharing strategies and advisory services. The process also establishes BIRN-wide security credentials for new users.

• Credential Management – BIRN data services require security credentials for users to store or access data. The BIRN-wide credential service, accessed via a client tool on the user’s home system, provides a simple way for users to get a credential whenever they choose to access BIRN services or data.

• Group Policy Management – This service will enable BIRN user teams to create new user groups and control their membership. User teams also will be able to assign access control privileges for other BIRN services, such as data access and storage.

The following tools provide fine-grained security for your data using public key cryptography and X.509 certificates:

• GAMA – Grid Account Management Architecture, GAMA, provides an end-to-end security infrastructure suitable for multi-institution collaborations with support for grid computing, cloud computing, and web portals. It makes grid portals easy to use, but maintains the security and delegation capabilities of GSI. This tool is heavily used in the BIRN Security capability.

• MyProxy – MyProxy is an online credential repository. You can store X.509 proxy credentials in the MyProxy repository, protected by a passphrase, for later retrieval over the network.

• User Registration Service/Certificate Authority – Because BIRN data services are distributed across many institutions, we provide a centralized registration mechanism for new users. This web-based registration service allows a user to become eligible to sign up to access data used by BIRN teams. They also gain access to BIRN’s infrastructure, software tools, data-sharing strategies and advisory services. The process also establishes BIRN-wide security credentials for new users.

• Credential Management – BIRN data services require security credentials for users to store or access data. The BIRN-wide credential service, accessed via a client tool on the user’s home system, provides a simple way for users to get a credential whenever they choose to access BIRN services or data.

• Group Policy Management – This service will enable BIRN user teams to create new user groups and control their membership. User teams also will be able to assign access control privileges for other BIRN services, such as data access and storage.