When scientists work together, they use web sites and other software to share their ideas and data. To ensure the integrity of their work, these systems require the scientists to log in and verify that they are part of the team working on a particular science problem. Too often, the identity and access verification process is a stumbling block for the scientists. Scientific research projects are forced to invest time and effort into developing and supporting Identity and Access Management (IdAM) services, distracting them from the core goals of their research collaboration. The "CILogon 2.0" project provides an IdAM platform that enables scientists to work together to meet their IdAM needs more effectively so they can allocate more time and effort to their core mission of scientific research. Partnerships with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center, and the Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) ensure that the "CILogon 2.0" project makes a real contribution to scientific collaborations. The project also provides training and outreach to additional scientific collaborations, and the project supports integration with the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which provides a national-scale cyberinfrastructure for scientific research in the US.
Prior to the "CILogon 2.0" project, the CILogon and COmanage projects separately developed platforms for federated identity management and collaborative organization management. Federated identity management enables researchers to use their home organization identities to access cyberinfrastructure, rather than requiring yet another username and password to log on. Collaborative organization management enables research projects to define user groups for authorization to collaboration platforms (e.g., wikis, mailing lists, and domain applications). The "CILogon 2.0" project integrates and expands on the existing CILogon and COmanage software to provide an integrated Identity and Access Management (IdAM) platform for cyberinfrastructure, provided as an InCommon research and scholarship (R&S) service and internationally federated via eduGAIN. This IdAM platform serves the unique needs of research collaborations, namely the need to dynamically form collaboration groups across organizations and countries, sharing access to data, instruments, compute clusters, and other resources to enable scientific discovery. The project provides a software-as-a-service platform to ease integration with cyberinfrastructure, while making all software components publicly available under open source licenses to enable re-use.
1. Jim Basney
Scott Koranda
CILogon 2.0
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers
0850557, 0943633, 1053575, 1440609, and 1547268 and by the Department of Energy under award
number DE-SC0008597. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this
material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States
Government or any agency thereof.
2. CILogon www.cilogon.org
CILogon 2.0 Project
❏ 3 year NSF CICI award
❏ January 2016 - December 2018
❏ Provide an integrated open source
Identity and Access Management (IdAM)
platform for cyberinfrastructure
❏ CILogon: federated identity management
❏ COmanage: collaborative organization
management
❏ Support international collaborations
3. CILogon www.cilogon.org
NSF CICI Program
❏ Cybersecurity Innovation for
Cyberinfrastructure (CICI)
❏ Funds projects in the areas of
❏ Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
❏ Regional Cybersecurity Collaboration
❏ Secure and Resilient Architecture
❏ Secure Architecture Design
❏ Data Provenance for Cybersecurity
https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505159
4. CILogon www.cilogon.org
CILogon 2.0 Team Members
❏ Jim Basney
❏ Terry Fleury
❏ Jeff Gaynor
❏ Venkat Yekkirala
❏ Heather Flanagan
❏ Scott Koranda
❏ Benn Oshrin
❏ Arlen Johnson
5. CILogon www.cilogon.org
Science Partners
❏ NANOGrav Physics
Frontiers Center
❏ Laser Interferometer
Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO)
❏ Data Observation Network
for Earth (DataONE)
10. CILogon www.cilogon.org
A Transparent Gateway
❏ CILogon passes campus/VO attributes to
the e-Science SP
❏ Always requiring user consent
❏ Attribute scopes approved per-client
❏ COmanage displays terms and conditions
during VO enrollment
❏ VO attribute release policy applied per client
11. CILogon www.cilogon.org
Open Researcher and
Contributor ID (ORCID)
❏ Linking ORCID iDs to federated IDs
❏ orcid.org
❏ on campus
❏ search.dataone.org
❏ cilogon.org
❏ eduPersonOrcid
❏ REFEDS ORCID working group
20. CILogon www.cilogon.org
Demo
{
"sub":"http://cilogon.org/serverA/users/534",
"name":"James Alan Basney",
"given_name":"James",
"family_name":"Basney",
"email":"jbasney@illinois.edu"
"idp_name":"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign",
"idp":"urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu",
"affiliation":
"employee@illinois.edu;member@illinois.edu;staff@illinois.edu",
"eppn":"jbasney@illinois.edu",
"eptid":"urn:mace:incommon:uiuc.edu!https://cilogon.org/shibboleth!
cyXC3O5fi0t1NBsW1NsOxZDyDd4=",
"eduPersonOrcid":["http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0139-0640"],
"isMemberOf":["members","members:Research","Publication Policy"],
}
21. CILogon www.cilogon.org
CILogon in Europe
❏ Supporting international
research collaborations
❏ Int’l IdP support at cilogon.org soon via
InCommon’s eduGAIN membership
❏ Depends on int’l R&S adoption
❏ European CILogon instance
❏ Addresses EU attribute release policies
❏ IGTF accredited CA: https://rcauth.eu/
24. CILogon www.cilogon.org
❏ In February 2016, Globus began listing
InCommon IdPs directly, rather than as
“alternate login” option
❏ InCommon / CILogon use doubled!
Encouraging Federated Logins
25. CILogon www.cilogon.org
Attribute Release Challenges
❏ R&S attributes not released for students
❏ Affiliate researcher
❏ Former student
❏ Former employee
❏ IdP operational failures
Students do research!
26. CILogon www.cilogon.org
Most Used IdPs in Apr 2016
1. LIGO
2. NIH
3. U of Michigan
4. Purdue University
5. U of Chicago
6. UIUC
7. UCLA
8. University of Colorado at
Boulder
9. Google (was #1 in 2012)
10.University of California,
Berkeley
11.Argonne Nat’l Lab
12.Indiana University
13.University of Minnesota
14.LBNL
15.Johns Hopkins
16.Yale University
17.Cornell University
18.Case Western Reserve
University
19.Stanford University
20.University of
Nebraska-Lincoln
R&S ECP
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
R&S
ECP
ECP
ECP
(unique active users per IdP)
27. CILogon www.cilogon.org
COmanage News
❏ COmanage Registry Release 1.0.0 in
December 2015
❏ COmanage Registry Release 1.0.3 in
TIER Release 1
❏ COmanage Release 1.0.4 current
