Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
Secured Advanced Federated Environment (SAFE): A NASA Solution for Secure Cross-Organization Collaboration
Linz, Austria
June 09-June 11
ISBN: 0-7695-1963-6
This paper discusses the challenges and security issues inherent in building complex cross-organizational collaborative projects and software systems within NASA. By applying the design principles of compartmentalization, organizational hierarchy and inter-organizational federation, the Secured Advanced Federated Environment (SAFE) is laying the foundation for a collaborative virtual infrastructure for the NASA community. A key element of SAFE is the Micro Security Domain (MSD) concept, which balances the need to collaborate and the need to enforce enterprise and local security rules. With the SAFE approach, security is an integral component of enterprise software and network design, not an afterthought.
Citation:
Edward Chow, Matthew Chew Spence, Barney Pell, Helen Stewart, David Korsmeyer, Joseph Liu, Hsin-Ping Chang, Conan Viernes, Andre Goforth, "Secured Advanced Federated Environment (SAFE): A NASA Solution for Secure Cross-Organization Collaboration," wetice, pp.214, Twelfth International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 2003