Security in e-Science

In recent years, e-Science and e-Research more generally, has grown considerably and the scope of application now covers research domains from science and engineering through to the arts and humanities and the social sciences. For many disciplines e-Science/e-Research is not simply supporting access to and use of high performance computing (HPC) clusters for larger scale simulations. Instead many disciplines require user-oriented support for finer-grained security-driven collaborative models. This in turn requires addressing amongst other things, issues such as user-oriented authentication, authorization, trust, privacy and policy management. Many e-Science and e-Research projects have developed distinctive security analyses, requirements, and technical solutions for a variety of applications. The aim of this workshop is to capture the best practice and state of the art in e-Science and e-Research security. We are particularly interested in security models that address inter-disciplinary e-Research. This workshop intends to provide a forum for researchers, developers and users working on security issues associated with e-Science and e-Research to exchange ideas and share experiences. The workshop will be a blend of invited talks, presentations of research papers, and discussions about the current status, emergent areas, and trends on security-related issues in e-Science and e-Research.