identity management systems, virtual enterprise, circle of trust
Abstract
Cooperative environments where multiple organizations interact for providing e-services to their customers are widely diffused and often referred as virtual enterprises. IT systems supporting these inter-organizational models must be designed by taking into account both functional and non-functional issues. Among the non-functional issues, information security solutions play an important role as mechanisms for reinforcing trust among members of a virtual enterprise and their supplier/ customers. In this paper, we outline a set of non-functional requirements for IT systems supporting virtual enterprises, and describe the federated identity management system which has been implemented in the context of an EU project (LD-CAST) as an example of a trust-reinforcing mechanism.
To cite this document: Paolo Spagnoletti and Stefano Za, "Securing virtual enterprises: Requirements and architectural choices", International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies, Vol.4, No.2, pp. 295-304, 2013.
Permanent link to this document:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/ijecs.1100
