Security in Collaborative Web Applications: Integrating TWiki into CERN's Single Sign-On System - Softcover

Bernegger, Alexander

 
9783639339789: Security in Collaborative Web Applications: Integrating TWiki into CERN's Single Sign-On System
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3639339789 ISBN 13: 9783639339789
Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2011

Synopsis

CERN employs more than 10.000 users and scientists from all over the world. Many of these employees work together on projects like the Large Hadron Collider and therefore need a platform to share knowledge and information amongst them. TWiki is a web-based, open source enterprise collaboration software with access control mechanism. In a sensitive research environment like CERN, protecting knowledge from unauthorized viewing is very important. The problem of controlling access for each single user in TWiki would have time-consuming effects. CERN manages employees by centralized accounts in order to access the computer systems. In these accounts, user-specific information such as membership in workgroups is stored. This information can be used to protect TWiki WebPages by giving access to those specific workgroups instead of each user. This book provides a solution on how to facilitate TWiki usage by integrating CERN's workgroups to TWiki's access control mechanism.

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About the Author

1982, Salzburg, Austria. Studies: Information Technology and Systems-Management at University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg. Technical Student at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Geneva, Switzerland. Web Developer and Systems Engineer at Federal Institute for Educational Research (BIFIE), Salzburg.

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Publisher
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3639339789
ISBN 13 
9783639339789
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
104