AARC-G014 Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity

Sirtfi provides a mechanism to identify trusted, operationally secure eduGAIN participants and facilitate effective incident response collaboration.
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AARC-G015 Scalable Negotiator for a Community Trust Framework in Federated Infrastructures

The Snctfi framework identifies operational and policy requirements to help establish trust between an Infrastructure and identity providers either in an R&E Federation or in another Infrastructure, in each case joined via a Service Provider to Identity Provider proxy.
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AARC-G057 Inferring and constructing origin-affiliation information across infrastructures

Conveying affiliation information from origin providers across infrastructures proxies as defined in G025 is only possible if the origin identity provider releases such information. In case no eduPersonScopedAffiliation is provided, it may be partially reconstructed according to these guidelines. If there is no reliable way to infer origin affiliation, no such affiliation should be asserted by infrastructure proxies.
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AARC-I044 Implementers Guide to the WISE Baseline Acceptable Use Policy

Applying the Baseline AUP to concrete use cases may appear straightforward, but there are many edge cases and specific circumstances where it is not entirely obvious how to both achieve the aim of user-friendliness as well as be complete and practical. In this write-up, we try to give hints how to use the WISE Baseline AUP in practice in both community-first as well as ‘user-first’ membership management services.
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AARC-I051 Guide to Federated Security Incident Response for Research Collaboration

This guide collects the experience from the controlled, or ‘mock’, security incident response exercises performed as part of the AARC project. It provides federations and their members with a reference to (i) prepare for a federated, coherent response to security incidents; (ii) recommendations on how to act during an ongoing incident; and (iii) report about the incident and share information with peers.
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AARC-G048 Guidelines for Secure Operation of Attribute Authorities and other issuers of access statements

These guidelines describe the minimum requirements and recommendations for the secure operation of Attribute Authorities and similar services providing statements for the purpose of obtaining access to infrastructure services. Stated compliance with these guidelines may help to establish trust between issuers and Relying Parties.
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AARC-G042 Data Protection Impact Assessment – an initial guide for communities

This report presents the results of the desk study on the evaluation of risks to (personal) data protection as considered in the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), for Infrastructures and their service providers that leverage federated identity management (FIM) to connect research and collaboration users.
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AARC-G041 Expression of REFEDS RAF assurance components for identities derived from social media accounts

Infrastructure Proxies may convey assurance information derived from multiple sources, one of which may be ‘social identity’ sources. This guidance explains under which conditions combination of assurance information and augmentation of identity data within the Infrastructure Proxy should result in assertion of the REFEDS Assurance Framework components “unique identifier”, and when it may be appropriate to assert the “identity proofing” component value low.
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AARC-G021 Exchange of specific assurance information between Infrastructures

Infrastructures and generic e-Infrastructures compose an ‘effective’ assurance profile derived from several sources, yet it is desirable to exchange the resulting assurance assertion obtained between Infrastructures so that it need not be re-computed by a recipient Infrastructure or Infrastructure service provider. This document describes the assurance profiles recommended to be used by the Infrastructure AAI Proxies between infrastructures.
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AARC-I050 Comparison Guide to Identity Assurance Mappings for Infrastructures

With a wide range of identity assurance frameworks to choose from, the most appropriate choice of assurance profile for a use case (one that meets both the risk assessment and the social and community context in which the assurance is needed) may be viewed as confusing. The choice of Cappuccino or Espresso from the REFEDS Assurance Framework, Assam from the AARC social media assurance, Birch and Dogwood from the Interoperable Global Trust Federation, Silver and Bronze from InCommon, and Levels 1 through 4 from both Kantara and NIST SP800-63 – all of these merit a policy mapping and comparison framework. In this whitepaper, we identify the implicit trust assumptions (in research and collaboration frameworks, the R&E identity federations, general private sector frameworks and e-government schemes) and present a way of comparing these frameworks. … more information …

AARC-G016 Recommendations on the exchange of personal data in accounting data sharing

Provide templates for policies that operators of different components in the infrastructures can use. It provides updates about the legal context and identifies the minimal set of information needed by the participants in the prevalent use cases. Note: it predated version 2 of the GEANT Code of Conduct, which will revise these recommendations.
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AARC-G013 Recommandations on minimal assurance level relevant for low-risk research use cases

For the risk management of the research services relying on the federated AAI, it is important to determine the assurance level available for the authenticated users. This document defines requirements for a minimal assurance level which is still relevant for low-risk research use cases.
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AARC-G040 Preliminary Policy Recommendations for the LS AAI (application to R&S and CoCo)

The Life Sciences AAI Service (LS AAI), developed in joint collaboration with EGI, EUDAT and GÉANT, will result in a production-equivalent service to be operated for the Life Sciences community by the joint e-Infrastructures. As the pilot enters its second phase the LS AAI has to declare compliance to R&S and CoCo towards the R&E federations. This document provides preliminary guidance for the operators of the pilot LS AAI.
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Future work, beyond the mere project, on policy and technical guidelines will focus on the following topics.

AARC-G025 Exchange of affiliation information between infrastructures

This document describes the semantics associated with the use of the affiliation attributes eduPersonAffiliation and/or eduPersonScopedAffiliation when these are asserted by an Infrastructure Proxy when communiting to connected service providers and other Infrastructure Proxies.
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AARC-G028 Requirements and guidelines for federated access to OIDC-based services in the context of research collaboration

This document captures what OIDC-based services need to understand and which schemes to follow in order to benefit from federated identities that currently are exclusively existent in the ‘SAML world’. It includes references to specific mappings between SAML and OIDC expression of attributes, entitlements or claims, and should be considered in conjunction with AARC-G032 “Guidelines for registering OIDC Relying Parties in AAIs for international research collaboration”
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AARC-G030 Requirements and Implementations for Authentication Freshness

This document describes mechanisms for forcing a user to perform an additional login (re-authentication) in order to ensure that the user who is accessing a protected resource is the same person who initially authenticated at the start of the session. Forced re-authentication can therefore provide additional protection for sensitive resources.
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AARC-G032 Registering OIDC Relying Parties in AAIs for international research collaboration

This document describes different ways to accomplish an OpenID Connect client registration, specifically providing guidance for International Research Collaborations that need to implement one of these systems.
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AARC-G036 Roles, responsibilities and security considerations for VOs

Virtual Organisations (VOs) have several roles and responsibilities; some are identified as community responsibilities, and others arise from relations to infrastructures (e.g. security contact, technical contact). Can we minimise the number of places that need this information, in order to improve maintainability and scalability.
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AARC-G037 Combining group membership and role information in multi-AA environments

When combining information from several AAs, one needs to consider the different semantics, different levels of assurance, and different purposes of the AAs and their attributes..
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