User Maturity Based Trust Management for Grid Computing

Abstract

Trust management has been considered an important factor in Grid computing security. Grids require a secure way to establish trust in their participants without requiring continuous intervention by the system administrators. This paper describes trust management in Grid computing systems and its use in evaluation environments to update the trust levels. This approach can be incorporated in Grid security systems to assist in issuing authorisations, in resource and service management, and in decision-making processes.