Security and Governance in Service Oriented Infrastructures: Research challenges and emerging solutions

Speaker
Theo Dimitrakos, PhD
Head of Security Architectures
Centre for Information and Security Systems Research
BT Innovate and BT Group CTO
http://labs.bt.com/it/People.html
BEinGRID scientific coordinator
http://www.beingrid.eu

Abstract

In this talk we will provide an overview of the Service Oriented Infrastructures programme in BT Group Research and highlights specific research challenges, design patterns and emerging solutions for Web Services Security and Governance.

We will use as examples some of the SOA security solutions that are being developed at BT’s UK research labs in collaboration with leading academic researchers and SOA vendors. These solutions facilitate secure end-to-end service integration within enterprises and across business partners. This is achieved by securely virtualising enterprise applications and resources, by securing their exposure to customers and by enforcing content- and context-sensitive policies about service presentation, end-to-end transactions, federated identity, usage and access control, intelligent routing and QoS obligations. These SOI security solutions come as stand-alone value-adding security services for i) identity federation, ii) distributed usage and access control, iii) secure messaging, routing and transformation, iv) security autonomics and v) governance or they can be integrated into a comprehensive SOI Secure Service Gateway (SOI-SSG) solution.
Finally we will refer to external collaborations examples where these concepts are being trialled. One such example is the BEinGRID research and innovation initiative that has 96 partners and coordinates 25 business pilots of Web Services and Grid technology in different business sectors.