Security and Privacy in Collaborative Working

Welcome to the web site for the Workshop on Security and Privacy in Collaborative Working, held in conjunction with the UK All Hands Meeting 2010, Cardiff, United Kingdom on 13-16 September 2010.

The workshop is being organised by the Security Working Group at the Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University.

We are now accepting abstracts

The emergence of high-speed networks, Cloud Computing, Service-Oriented Architectures, Web 2.0 and an ever increasing ambient connection to mobile Internet has enabled an underpinning infrastructure for the development of dynamically formed, collaborative working groups. Increased collaboration between individuals and organizations generally leads to the sharing of information and services outside of the owner’s locus of control. This provides strong motivation for investigation into the infrastructure, and in particular the security necessary to protect the information and resources shared within these environments. This requires the research community to address, among other things, collaboratively developed security policy, continued ownership and control of shared information, intellectual property, privacy requirements and content specific information security requirements.

Secure Collaborative working is an essential part of eScience. Such collaboration could take place within many scientific domains, such as in BioSciences and Particle Physics, where data must be shared securely and in accordance with specific usage policies. There has been significant investment in the UK eScience programme already in defining a security policy, the aim of which has been to promote best practice in Information Security, within the context of the UK e-Science Programme to “encourage the adoption of project-specific processes that lead to desirable outcomes in confidentiality, integrity, and availability”. The aim of this workshop is therefore to bring together a diverse community of individuals who are impacted by such a policy, to enable them to identify best practice and share experience. The outcome could be the basis for defining a `roadmap' in this area.