con terra GmbH offers security solution in InFoGIS

13 August 2007, 1:49pm

Regulating Access for Specialist Forestry Data (according to protection requirements).

A security solution developed by con terra GmbH has been implemented in InFoGIS, the information component of the Baden-Württemberg forestry geoinformation system, to regulate the visibility and discoverability of information to specific users. InFoGIS has been integrated as a GIS module in the forestry operational, communication and business management system, known as FOKUS 2000, which is run by the state forestry administration.

Both the specialist forestry data and the geobasis data are supplied by services (ArcIMS and transactional WFS) which access a centralised database.

So as to comply with data protection requirements, access control is needed, both for the display of maps using ArcIMS and for the collection and maintenance of data using WFS-T.

The web security service (WSS) is the central component for controlling access to ArcIMS and WFS-T services. This service is positioned between the application and the GIS service, and monitors the communication between the two. It ensures that only authorised queries are dealt placed by a user with the applicable rights. The system is able to regulate both whether a user is authorised to exercise reading and writing rights on the data and that only the rights for defined spatial areas are issued to each user.

http://www.eurogeographics.org/eng/03_egn/documents/070504_SecurityInSDI_conterra_V2.pdf

See also:
Protecting OGC Web Services with the 52°North Security System
at
http://www.foss4g2007.org/labs/L-11/

News item alert provided by Kate Lance, GSDI Association Legal & Economic Working Group
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