All,
The detailed program for GGF-16 can now be found at
http://www.ggf.org/gf/event_schedule/
We have an interesting agenda lined up, security-wise. "Here and now"
is the recurrent theme of this event, and that shows in the workshop
program as well, with multi-grid interoperability, authorization here
and now, and "Grid meets Shib" on the agenda. The virtualization ad-
hoc BOF and the "Security and Privacy needs of Health Grids" sounds
very interesting as well. Not to mention our usual RG and WG
sessions, of course!
On Wednesday, February 15th at 13:30 we have our security area
session, for which we would like to take the opportunity to attract
your interest with this invited presentation:
Title: Microsoft R&D: Distributed Security for Grids
Presenter: Mr. Blair Dillaway, Software Architect, Advanced
Strategies and Policy
Abstract: This talk will present an overview of distributed security
work being done at Microsoft that is relevant to problems faced by
the Grid community. It will identity the challenging Grid security
problems we are focusing on and review Microsoft technologies that
provided a foundation for this work. It will then discuss some of the
ways the technologies are being evolved and integrated to create more
practical and flexible solutions.
In addition, we (your ADs) believe that the security area needs to
start looking a little bit into the future[*], to make sure that our
activities line up well with the new and emerging needs. This will
also be discussed at our area meeting.
Hope to see many of you there!
Olle & Dane
[*] Given that we have a guest from Microsoft, perhaps it would be
appropriate to dub the area meeting "The Road Ahead". ;-)
