ABSTRACT
Standards Validation ....................................................... 316 12.4 Shibboleth and Grid Security .................................................... 318 12.5 Case Studies in User-Oriented Grid Security ......................... 322
12.5.1 VOTES Project .................................................................. 323 12.5.2 GEMEPS Project ............................................................... 326 12.5.3 BRIDGES Project .............................................................. 328
12.6 Conclusions and Recommendations ........................................ 329 References ............................................................................................. 331
Security is essential for interorganizational collaborative e-Research. Without robust, reliable, the easy to understand and manage e-Research security models and their implementations, many communities and wider industry will simply not engage. To support interorganizational, interdisciplinary research it is essential that e-Research security infrastructures support several key (defi ning) characteristics.
