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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Friends,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">I’m reaching out for assistance from anyone who may have confronted the issue of dealing with ITAR data in an OpenStack cloud being used in some department of the Federal Gov. </span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">ITAR (<a href="https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html"><span class="gmail-s2">https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html</span></a>) is a less restrictive level of security than classified data, but it has some thorny aspects to it, particularly where media is concerned:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">* you cannot co-mingle ITAR and non-ITAR data on the same physical hard drives, and any drive, once it has been “tainted” with any ITAR data, is now an ITAR drive</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">* when ITAR data is destroyed, a DBAN is insufficient — instead, you physically shred the drive. No need to elaborate on how destructive this can get if you accidentally mingle ITAR with non-ITAR</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Certainly the multi-tenant model of OpenStack holds great promise in Federal agencies for supporting both ITAR and non-ITAR worlds, but great care must be taken that *somehow* things like Glance and Cinder don’t get mixed up. One must ensure that the ITAR tenants can only access Glance/Cinder in ways such that their backend storage is physically separate from any non-ITAR tenants. Certainly I understand that Glance/Cinder can support multiple storage backend types, such as File & Ceph, and maybe that is an avenue to explore to achieving the physical separation. But what if you want to have multiple different File backends? <br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Do the ACLs exist to ensure that non-ITAR tenants can’t access ITAR Glance/Cinder backends, and vice versa?<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Or…is it simpler to just build two OpenStack clouds….?</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">Your thoughts will be most appreciated,<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2"><br></p><p class="gmail-p2">Jonathan Mills</p><p class="gmail-p2">NASA Goddard Space Flight Center</p></div>