XSEDE Security Working Group Charter

Abstract

The XSEDE Security Working Group (XSWoG) is responsible for creating security policies and procedures to be approved by the XSEDE Advisory Board, as well as helping to realize the goals set forth for XSEDE security operations. The primary role of this group is advisory, to monitor and evaluate the security stance of XSEDE and propose changes to policy and procedure to the XSEDE Advisory Board. The secondary role of this group is information sharing. This could be to share threat information, to relay operational security issues/concerns at different sites, to share and request feedback on security plans/configurations being reviewed by security operations or SD&I, etc.