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Virtual Factory Open Operating System

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

General description

Authorisation is the process of allowing an entity (humans, systems or devices) to access information systems or facilities where information and processing capabilities are being stored. More practical in an industrial setting for Digital Manufacturing Platforms, an authorized person can get access to an operational machine in order to update it, or investigate its contents. Unauthorized access could be someone who has been able to access the network from the outside, performing actions that have not been authorized and cannot be justified.

Authentication is a means to assess the authorization rules of an entity by means of a set of instruments. In the case of Digital Manufacturing Platforms it would be the instruments like user name and password, and in addition a second factor such as a physical token or a mobile phone that can authenticate the person accessing the platform. The physical token connects the person to something he has, the password to something he knows.

A third A in the AAA-architecture is related to Access. Once authorized, and authenticated, access can be granted to the location, system, application, and / or information. Access control levels can thus be set up on different layers. These can be physical (access to the country, to the plant, to the building, the room and the environment where the system is located), and logical (using authentication technologies). In Digital Manufacturing Platforms this means the systems could be accessible only on premise, in the factory or for instance in the (private or public) cloud. As a result different access mechanisms needs to be considered, depending on the risk and intended security levels and controls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_(computer_security) ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization

Specifics for Project vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System

ICT performance characteristics Project specific Kanban ICT performance characteristics Data communication and interoperability Taxon page Project specific Kanban Platform level interoperability Taxon page Project specific Kanban AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon page Comment: Centralised token based security framework for REST APIs.

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

Description manufacturing and logistics processes including its associated resources and data Open vf-OS Platform, including a Multi-sided application marketplace and development studio, that aims to become the
Comments - Access, Authorisation and Authentication ICT performance characteristics Platform level interoperability Data communication and interoperability Centralised token based security framework for REST APIs
vfOS - ID4.4a - Security & Data Access(M18) Result title vfOS - ID4.4a - Security & Data Access(M18)
vfOS - ID10.1 - Impact Strategy and Plan(M3) Result description s results and the widest dissemination of knowledge from the project in an open access manner
vfOS - ID5.4a - Data Analytics(M18) Result comments , processing and AI Information and communication technologies
vfOS - ID5.1a - Data Infrastructure Middleware(M18) Result comments , processing and AI Information and communication technologies
AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon title AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description A third A in the AAA-architecture is related to Access. Once authorized, and authenticated, access can be granted to the location, system, application, and / or information.