Securing web services for deployment in health grids

  • Authors:
  • D. J. Power;E. A. Politou;M. A. Slaymaker;A. C. Simpson

  • Affiliations:
  • Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK;Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK;Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK;Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems - Parallel input/output management techniques (PIOMT) in cluster and grid computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we describe an approach to the facilitation of system-wide security that enables fine-grained access control within systems in which third party web services are deployed. The primary motivation for the work comes from the authors' research into the development of grid-enabled healthcare systems (or health grids). Indeed, we would argue that if the e-Health dream is to become reality, then there is a clear need for web services that enable remote access to medical data to be secured in an appropriate fashion. We compare our approach of wrapping web services with alternative approaches based on generic SOAP proxies. As an illustrative example we describe how the OGSA-DAI grid services have been secured via XACML-based access control policies.