Draft available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/176vzNaoK6KvKTMp8Glk2n1NaM6bxiS1QqH8M3_mu7NI/edit#
Objective
Provide new or evolving Research Communities and Infrastructures with the guidance they need to develop a complete policy suite supporting Federated Identity Management. This should be done with input from the wider community, through FIM4R, WISE and relevant bodies. For this work in AARC, the policy kit should be tightly scoped to the blueprint architecture but there is an expectation that the work be extended to be relevant for infrastructures in general.
Audience
Operational Management of Research Communities and their respective infrastructures
Process
- Identify key actors in Blueprint Architecture (Membership Manager, Proxy Operator, etc)
- Identify Policies Required for Compliance with Snctfi
- Identify Example Policies from other infrastructures to serve as inspiration
- Produce a training module to enable Research Communities to have a basic starter pack for policies
- Introduce the concept of frameworks and policies, why are they important
- Introduce Snctfi
- Encourage RC actors to make policy decisions (e.g. log retention, minimum assurance etc)
- Translate those decisions into policy templates
- Q & A
- Place templates on the AARC Website and produce an AARC Guideline document that links to each piece
Assumptions
- RCs/Infrastructures may not have a security focussed person, could just be a PI. Definitely can't assume CSIRT body
- Those using this policy pack are following the AARC blueprint
Pre-Requisites
- Stable DP CoCo Version
- Aligned AUP AARC Deliverable
Use Cases
- EPOS
- Life Sciences
- HelmHoltz Data Federation
Roles
- PI/Membership Manager (including Security Contact)
- Proxy Operator
- Users
- Service Management (including Security Contact)
- Infrastructure Management (including Security Contact)
Next Steps
- Design a top level policy, either modular or verbose
- Add templates for easy wins (IR, AUP, Privacy Policy from CoCo, Membership Management )
- More difficult modules (Authentication Assurance - Uros Stevanovic)
Which policies do we need?
| Policy Need | Source | Template Basis | Audience | Comment | Name | What should we produce? | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incident Response Procedure | Sirtfi | EGI Incident Response, should link to Sirtfi, AARC work | Proxy, Services |
| Incident Response Procedure | Template | H to add template based on AARC and EGI |
Policy on
for all Constituents | Snctfi | EGI Operational Security Policy | Proxy, Services | Top level policy that covers physical and network security, vulnerability handling and refers to additional policies on Acceptable Assurance, Incident Response Procedure, Membership management We either make very modular or try to make this quite long | Top Level Policy | Template | |
| AUP for end users | Snctfi | WISE Baseline AUP | Users |
| Infrastructure AUP | Template | Wait for Ian, check with him |
| Collections of users' aims and purposes | Snctfi | This is the User Community AUP. There is an example somewhere. Would be better if these could be combined. | |||||
Policies and procedures regulating the behaviour of the management of the Collection of users | Snctfi | EGI Membership Management | In XSEDE it's much more simple | Membership Management | Template | U to add template based on https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vPcAja1EyTp-kJPvJpwu3NSd8e1aVcytY3nSGthWNLU/edit# | |
Data Protection Policy, e.g. DP CoCov2 | Snctfi | CoCo | Could be included in top level | Data Protection Code of Conduct | Framework description | U to go through CoCov2 and check whether this is prescriptive enough | |
Privacy Policy | CoCo | CoCo Template | Privacy Policy | Template | H to add the Privacy Policy template from CoCov2 | ||
| Policy on eligibility to join the infrastructure (i.e. services) | Elixir | NOT Similar to EGI Service Operations, there is some overlap with the Top Level Policy. Try and include in overall policy | Service Eligibility | Template | |||
| Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) | Data Privacy Statement | NOT A POLICY but could inform policy decisions. Could be one of the steps to think about before the policy. | |||||
Acceptable Authentication Assurance | We should make people think about this, but RAF not quite ready. | Template | Very basic template included |
Example Policy Sets
Differences with EGI Policies?
- Cannot assume a CSIRT for each Infrastructure
- Assume there is one AUP
- Resource Centres are not relevant
- There are not necessarily multiple User Communities
| Action | Status | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Reword "Research Community" to Infrastructure | Hannah | |
| IR Procedure Template | Hannah | |
| AUP Template | Ian | |
| Membership Management Template | Uros | |
| CoCov2 Privacy Policy Template | Hannah | |
| Check whether CoCov2 can be our "policy" | Uros | |
| Send an update to Irina | Hannah | |
| Consider DPIA | Uros | |
| Put on AARC Website in a modular format | ... | |
| Ask David about RAF and Assurance Profiles | Uros |