Policy Development Kit

Aim: 

We have had a lot of feedback that the Policy Development Kit (which came from the AARC project) is good but doesn't necessarily fit use cases. People have to make significant modifications. We would like to pull in the feedback from these first-hand implementation experiences and produce an improved set of templated policies. 

In particular, some communities are looking for something very easy to pick up and define requirements on participating services (e.g. CS3MESH). Our first objective is to update the Security Operations Policy (and possibly the top level policy that ties participants together).

Resources:

The final work from the AARC Project is at https://aarc-community.org/policies/policy-development-kit/ this has been slightly updated with time

We have a (unmaintained) Moodle course at https://e-academy.geant.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=16 

Existing Security Operations Policy Options:

• PDK version https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_cNMF3l3YVPqBBH0MPqx9DLAL1t3Z33_fJcjln8Xk48/edit#heading=h.idp93lqbm8kt
• The PDK was used to produce a Service Operations Security Policy for EOSC-hub which was then also adopted by EGI. Some wording was changed from the initial PDK to the EOSC-hub version, including the reference to Sirtfi was removed from point 4 and "Privacy Statement" was changed to "Privacy Notice"
  • The EOSC-hub/EGI policy from June 2020 onwards is available at: https://documents.egi.eu/document/3601
• The EOSC Security Baseline may serve as a best option for loosely coupled federations https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a8TQAfOnB0CADo_n5nn7-DQX6jV7Iz-2i90hBAzMgGY/edit#heading=h.eyau1431a74f (plan to adopt almost as is)
  • Based on Iris https://www.iris.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IRIS-Service-Operations-Security-Policy.pdf (though that one removed Sirtfi and only referred to it in footnotes. Wanted self contained). Advantage is long list of references.
  • Less prescriptive 
• Elixir 
  • This is our Service operations security policy:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TKczGc_9U-i3XTT3pVqy8EpHyMrTZ9m9rMFFwhlFMtg/edit?usp=sharing
  • You may be interested also in our ToU for service providers which was missing from AARC PDK and was developed by ourselves:
    https://docs.google.com/document/d/10DBkPr_zWpFJPWTav8SMw61IVExIU0349pUkBl9cLjw/edit# It has the same license as the AARC PDK (CC-BY-SA-NC)
  • See page 14 - 15 for feedback from life sciences https://zenodo.org/record/4559400#.YWRFLC8RpQI
• Trusted CI https://www.trustedci.org/guide-overview?rq=MISPP 
• HIFIS (previously HDF) https://hifis.net/doc/helmholtz-aai/security-response/

Meetings: 

1. Discussed during EUGridPMA October 2021
2. October 4th 2021 
3. Friday 22nd (morning) 10:00 CEST
4. At the WISE/SIG-ISM Meeting October 26/27 https://events.geant.org/event/742/ 

WISE Meeting October 27th

Actions:

• Hannah: Ask ELIXIR if they used the Security Operations Policy
• Hannah: Ask Uros/Marcus about HDF use
• Ian: share Iris and PDK Policy comparison

• Hannah: Create PDK section on WISE website