Information exchange in business collaboration using grid technologies

With the emergence of service provisioning environments and new networking capabilities, antagonistic businesses have been able to collaboratesecurely by sharing information in order to have a beneficial result for all. Thiscollaboration has sometimes been imposed by state legislation and sometimes beendesirable by the firms themselves so as to resolve frequently occurring abnormalities. In any case, as information exchange takes place between antagonistic firms, security and privacy issues arise. In the context of this paper, a collaborativeenvironment has been analyzed for enterprises that set out in the banking sector. AGrid-based Anti-Money Laundering (AML) system has been developed in an effortto take advantage of the Grid infrastructure, supporting the secure and trustfulexchange of information between financial institutions and ensuring the confidentialityof the data transferred and the authentication of the users to whom they areavailable. Special emphasis is put on security mechanisms for supporting identityand privacy management as well as in Service Level Agreements (SLA) enforcementfor enabling a trust enforcement platform in a collaboration business model