A distributed community approach for protecting resources in Digital Ecosystem

Dynamic interactions occur excessively between the enterprises/entities in a Digital Ecosystem (DE) environment. These interactions promote resource sharing, task collaboration and application as services which are carried over the internet. Due to the open and loosely coupled nature and interactions, a DE poses several challenges, and in particular cyber security. These challenges span across from enterprise resources protection, comprehensive access control and identity management, strong and effective encryption mechanism, to the management of diversified security policies. However, current developments of security mechanisms for solving these challenges in DE are still in their infancy. On the other hand, security mechanism for protecting e-commerce transactions has matured over a number of years. Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is the preferred mechanism that has been widely adopted by many e-commerce websites. In this paper, we discuss our proposed solution for managing security in DE, and we further provide the comparison analysis between SSL and our proposed security mechanism for a DE environment.