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Security Needs and Usability in Grid e-Science Projects

Bruce Beckles made this Freedom of Information request to University of Edinburgh

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From: Bruce Beckles

3 March 2010

Dear University of Edinburgh,

Please supply, in electronic form, the Technical Report on
Usability from the UK e-Science Security Task Force entitled
"Security Needs and Usability in Grid e-Science Projects", which
the EPSRC has suggested[1] may be held by the National e-Science
Centre. I believe this report dates from 2005/6 and is a report on
a small survey commissioned by EPSRC and the DTI [as it was then
called] to identify the security needs of e-Science projects and
usability issues with current security mechanisms.

Yours faithfully,

Bruce Beckles

[1]
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/se...

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From: Gordon Duckett
University of Edinburgh

12 March 2010

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Dear Mr Beckles

I write in response to your recent request for information on Security
Needs and Usability in Grid e-Science Projects.

I believe that the report you are seeking was not authored by University
of Edinburgh staff, however it has been available online since 2007
(please see):

[1]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob...
I trust that this response is helpful.
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University in writing (including by fax, letter or email) or in some other
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submit a review request. When the review process has been completed, if
you are still dissatisfied, you may ask the Scottish Information
Commissioner to intervene.
Gordon Duckett

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From: Bruce Beckles

12 March 2010

Dear Mr Duckett,

Thank you for your reply and the reference to the paper in the
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, which is very
interesting. It is not, however, the report which I am seeking.

The report which I would like is called "Security Needs and
Usability in Grid e-Science Projects" not "Stakeholder involvement,
motivation, responsibility, communication: How to design usable
security in e-Science". Also, the report I am after is a UK
e-Science Security Task Force Technical Report not a journal
paper/article.

In addition, the report I want is a report on a small specially
commissioned survey, whilst the paper whose URL you provided is a
discussion of the findings of four case studies of applying the
AEGIS system design method to four e-Science projects. Finally, the
report, and the survey on which it is reporting, were commissioned
by EPSRC and the DTI (as it was then called), whilst the paper
seems to have been produced for the CFP at [1].

Please could you either supply the report in question, or confirm
that it is not held? (You said that "the report you are seeking was
not authored by University of Edinburgh staff", which I believe is
true, but I'm not sure how it is relevant - I am after a report
which EPSRC has suggested[2] may be held by the National e-Science
Centre; I'm afraid I don't see how its authorship is relevant to
whether or not it is held by the University.)

Yours sincerely,

Bruce Beckles

[1]
http://www.elsevier.com/framework_produc...

[2]
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/se...

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From: Bruce Beckles

17 April 2010

Minutes of the 13th TAG.htm.html
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Minutes of the 15th TAG.htm.html
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Minutes of the 17th TAG.htm.html
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Dear Gordon and Bruce

If the NeSC had the report it would be in our technical report series which is publicly available on the web.

Here are my best recollections.

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I have scanned my personal files of TAG minutes and:
the minutes of 13, 15 and 17 TAG request a report from AS

By the 18th TAG the paper is promised for July 2005 --- as you can see it is illusive.

That leads me to the following security road map document:
and then I have:

which I think is what Bruce wants.

But I can't guarantee that there weren't other versions of it.
This copy was in my files for the 19 July 2005 TAG meeting.

Bruce I hope this is what you want. Technically the papers at TAG were confidential, but I cannot believe anyone else will worry now.
If I remember rightly, it received a fair amount of criticism at the meeting and that is probably why it wasn't offered as an e-Science Tech Report.

Couldn't Angela have given it to you? Its a lovely Saturday morning and this has taken some time tracking it down.

Malcolm

that though it has no date or authors, is dated July 2005.

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Richard Taylor left an annotation (18 April 2010)

The above message was sent to Mr Beckles personally; he passed it on to WhatDoTheyKnow for it to be posted to the thread. That explains why his name appears at the top of the message, the from name should read: "Malcolm Atkinson".

The original message contained in-line attachments which our system does not deal with very well; but hopefully no meaning has been lost.

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Richard - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer