Title
Automatic conformance checking of role-based access control policies via alloy
Abstract
Access control policies are a crucial aspect of many security-critical software systems. It is generally accepted that the construction of access control policies is not a straightforward task. Further, any mistakes in the process have the potential to give rise both to security risks, due to the provision of inappropriate access, and to frustration on behalf of legitimate end-users when they are prevented from performing essential tasks. In this paper we describe a tool for constructing role-based access control (RBAC) policies, which are automatically checked for conformance with constraints described using predicate logic. These constraints may represent general healthiness conditions that should hold of all policies conforming to a general model, or capture requirements pertaining to a particular deployment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-19125-1_2
ESSoS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
general model,crucial aspect,particular deployment,legitimate end-users,automatic conformance checking,role-based access control policy,essential task,inappropriate access,access control policy,general healthiness condition,predicate logic,role-based access control,role based access control,software systems
Conference
6542
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
4
0.48
References 
Authors
19
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
David Power112416.71
Mark Slaymaker211915.44
Andrew Simpson328249.37