Mar 2020: OnTimeURB: Multi-domain security for science gateway applications

Data-intensive science applications in research fields such as bioinformatics, chemistry, and material science are increasingly becoming multi-domain in nature. To augment local campus CyberInfrastructure (CI) resources, these applications rely on multi-institutional resources that are remotely accessible (e.g., scientific instruments, supercomputers, public clouds). Provisioning of such federated CI resources has been traditionally based on applications’ performance and quality of service (QoS) requirements. This talk will detail our project that aims to augment traditional resource provisioning schemes through novel schemes for formalizing end-to-end security requirements to align security posture across multi-domain resources with heterogeneous policies. We will present our OnTimeURB broker design to foster end-to-end multi-domain security for science gateway applications in bioinformatics and health information sharing that involves defining, formalizing and implementing security specifications along an application's workflow lifecycle stages.

More information about OnTimeURB is available at https://sites.google.com/view/ontimebroker/.

Speaker Bio: Prasad Calyam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Missouri-Columbia. His research and development areas of interest include: Distributed and Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Computer Networking, Networked-Multimedia Applications, and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. He has published over 125 papers in various conference and journal venues. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.