Policy Development Kit

Aim: 

An activity of the WISE SCI working group

We have had a lot of feedback that the Policy Development Kit (which came from the AARC project) is good but doesn't necessarily fit use cases. People have to make significant modifications. We would like to pull in the feedback from these first-hand implementation experiences and produce an improved set of templated policies. 

In particular, some communities are looking for something very easy to pick up and define requirements on participating services (e.g. CS3MESH). Our first objective is to update the Security Operations Policy (and possibly the top level policy that ties participants together).

Meetings (SCI-WG PDK): 

1. Discussed during EUGridPMA 28-30 September 2021
2. October 4th 2021 
3. Friday 22nd October (morning) 10:00 CEST
4. At the WISE/SIG-ISM Meeting October 26/27 https://events.geant.org/event/742/ and Slides
5. November 15th 15:00 CET 
6. November 29th 15:00 CET
7. December 13th 2021 15:00 CET
8. January 24th 2022  15:00 CET
9. February 2nd  15:00 CET
10. February 21st  15:00 CET
11. March 7th  15:00 CET
12. March 21st  15:00 CET - cancelled (clash with ISGC2022 security workshop)
13. April 4th  15:00 CEST
14. May 3rd 2022  15:00 CEST
15. May 16th 2022  15:00 CEST
16. May 31st 2022   15:00 CEST
17. July 4th 2022  15:00 CEST
18. August 8th 2022  15:00 CEST
19. We failed to reach consensus on an updated Data Protection policy template - activity then stopped (for now).

Resources:

The final work from the AARC Project is at https://aarc-community.org/policies/policy-development-kit/ this has been slightly updated with time

We have a (unmaintained) Moodle course at https://e-academy.geant.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=16 

Existing Security Operations Policy Options:

• PDK version https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_cNMF3l3YVPqBBH0MPqx9DLAL1t3Z33_fJcjln8Xk48/edit#heading=h.idp93lqbm8kt
• The PDK was used to produce a Service Operations Security Policy for EOSC-hub which was then also adopted by EGI. Some wording was changed from the initial PDK to the EOSC-hub version, including the reference to Sirtfi was removed from point 4 and "Privacy Statement" was changed to "Privacy Notice"
  • The EOSC-hub/EGI policy from June 2020 onwards is available at: https://documents.egi.eu/document/3601
• The EOSC Security Baseline may serve as a best option for loosely coupled federations https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8TQAfOnB0CADo_n5nn7-DQX6jV7Iz-2i90hBAzMgGY/edit#heading=h.eyau1431a74f (plan to adopt almost as is)
  • Based on Iris https://www.iris.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IRIS-Service-Operations-Security-Policy.pdf (though that one removed Sirtfi and only referred to it in footnotes. Wanted self contained). Advantage is long list of references.
  • Less prescriptive 
• Elixir 
  • This is our Service operations security policy:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TKczGc_9U-i3XTT3pVqy8EpHyMrTZ9m9rMFFwhlFMtg/edit?usp=sharing
  • You may be interested also in our ToU for service providers which was missing from AARC PDK and was developed by ourselves:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/10DBkPr_zWpFJPWTav8SMw61IVExIU0349pUkBl9cLjw/edit# It has the same license as the AARC PDK (CC-BY-SA-NC)
  • See page 14 - 15 for feedback from life sciences https://zenodo.org/record/4559400#.YWRFLC8RpQI
• Trusted CI https://www.trustedci.org/guide-overview?rq=MISPP 
• HIFIS (previously HDF) https://hifis.net/doc/helmholtz-aai/security-response/

Final PDK Template Documents:

Service Operations Security Policy template:  https://wiki.geant.org/download/attachments/345276462/WISE-SCI-PDK-ServiceOpsSecPol-V2.pdf?api=v2

Working Documents: 

Google doc with new version of Service Operations Security Policy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oO2OsBG99Wf3ecvjU28qma4ubyzpBJgMIB93eRpz6Ck/edit#heading=h.idp93lqbm8kt

Google doc with "work in progress" draft of Community Combined Security Policy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SNew2NMI96EGZtbdnPZyyLIZ6mGYUeLgik_d-MMT540/edit?usp=sharing 

WISE Meeting October 27th

Actions:

• Hannah: Ask ELIXIR if they used the Security Operations Policy
• Hannah: Ask Uros/Marcus about HDF use
• Ian: share Iris and PDK Policy comparison (Updated 11/11/2021 - Added Sirtfi column to doc)

• Hannah: Create PDK section on WISE website
• Hannah: Revise comments on Service Operations Security Policy
• ?: Diagram of policies, how they fit together and how they support SCI 

This was drawn a while ago. Does not address SCI or exactly fit requirements but may provide basis for improvement.