Co-Leaders
- Mark Cather – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- J. Scott Ransbottom – Virginia Tech
- Donna Tatro – Princeton University
Draft Scope Statement:
Develop an architecture and implementation approach to enable “End to end trust and security” for the Research & Education community
Note: Address trust, identity, privacy, physical & cyber security, compliance, etc.
Potential areas for innovation
- Scalable and extensible approaches integrating capabilities for trust, identify, privacy, security, compliance
- “Chip to device to network to clouds” trust and security models
Some related initiatives
- Many individual member institution programs
- InCommon, TIER, NET+, Internet2 CCSO initiatives
- External organizations e.g., NIST, Cloud Security Alliance, the International Association of Privacy Professionals
A few potential use cases
- Protection of sensitive and regulated research data
- Mitigation of risks to enterprise operations
- Material for new educational programs