Workshops

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As we look to the future, humankind faces challenges that are increasing, while our resources are ever dwindling. To survive and thrive we need to work together- no one individual or organization, agency or even government can address these global challenges all by themselves. As we look across many groups in government, academia, and industry, we see similar trends and needs emerge- the need to access and integrate many types of multimodal data from many sources, the need to collaborate with others both inside and outside our own organizations irrespective of geographic location, and the desire to develop a shared understanding, better decision-making, and to coordinate action.

What if we could integrate our data and leverage our shared resources? What if we could harness our shared knowledge and enthusiasm? What if together we could be much more than we could be alone? How would the world be impacted if such a shared, global collaboration and geospatial infrastructure were available?

Read more on Collaborate.org to be Showcased in Fourth Annual COM.Geo Conference (COM.Geo 2013)

Collaborate.org is an open global online community of people, working together and sharing resources, expertise and enthusiasm, empowered with advanced technologies like collaboration and visualization tools, and all the world’s geospatial data at your fingertips- including real-time sensor data, GIS and database information, news/RSS and social media, and satellite and aerial imagery. It currently hosts over 2.2M layers, estimated at over 5PB of data, with the easy ability for users to upload and share their own data with those they wish. It’s Very Big Data leveraging a worldwide cloud computing infrastructure, with crowdsourced data acquisition and quality, and advanced visualization and collaboration tools- everything people need to work together in one place to empower them to do Great Things.

Introduction

Many different types of high quality and up-to-date geospatial information are available from different providers. Often, Intranet solutions exist where trusted users can access information with very few access constraints. In contrast, making information available to users outside of a trusted environment requires the implementation of many security requirements of which Access Control is paramount.

Challenge

When implementing access control systems, a challenge exists in enabling access rights that are highly dependent on many different things. Therefore, it is usually a good idea to separate the implementation and the configuration of the access control system. This allows the use of mature software that can be configured to enforce specific access rights.

About the Workshop

This workshop is divided in two parts:

1. The theoretical base of the GeoXACML Policy Language:

GeoXACML is the OGC standard language aimed specifically at declaring and enforcing geo-specific access rights, which protect access to geospatial data or services. This workshop will introduce GeoXACML and will illustrate how to write GeoXACML Policies for OGC WMS and WFS services.

 2. The practical portion of the workshop will provide attendees an environment for hands-on exercises to experiment writing GeoXACML policies and testing them in a demo environment.

Workshop Agenda

09:00 – 09:15 Speaker and audience intro
09:15 – 10:00 Brief introduction to security requirements and standards including GeoXACML
10:00 – 10:15 “Cross Border” Use – Full system integration demo focusing on Access Control
10:15 – 11:15 Hands-On session
11:15 – 11:45 Use Case “Fire at the airport” walk-through
11:45 – 12:00 Wrap-up

Brief introduction to security requirements and standards

Requirements are
• Authentication
• Access Control
• Integrity
• Confidentiality
• Availability
• Authenticity
• (Non-Repudiation)

Available standards for implementing the requirements:

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More workshops will be released soon.