Title
AMTRAC: An administrative model for temporal role-based access control
Abstract
Over the years, Role Based Access Control (RBAC) has received significant attention in system security and administration. The Temporal Role Based Access Control (TRBAC) model is an extension of RBAC that allows one to specify periodic enabling and disabling of roles in a role enabling base (REB). While decentralized administration and delegation of administrative responsibilities in large RBAC systems is managed using an administrative role based access control model like ARBAC97, no administrative model for TRBAC has yet been proposed. In this paper, we introduce such a model and name it AMTRAC (Administrative Model for Temporal Role based Access Control). AMTRAC defines a broad range of relations that control user-role assignment, role-permission assignment, role-role assignment and role enabling base assignment. Since the first three are similar to those in ARBAC97, the role enabling base assignment component has been discussed in detail in this paper. The different ways by which role enabling conditions of regular roles can be modified are first explained. We then show how to specify which of the administrative roles are authorized to modify the role enabling conditions of any regular role. An exhaustive set of commands for authorization enforcement along with their pre and postconditions is also presented. Together, this would facilitate practical deployment and security analysis of TRBAC systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.cose.2013.07.005
Computers & Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
administrative command,administrative model,temporal rbac,role hierarchy,role enabling base assignment
Software deployment,Computer science,Computer security,Authorization,Role-based access control,Security analysis,Enforcement,Role hierarchy,Delegation
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
39,
0167-4048
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
26
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manisha Sharma1295.38
Shamik Sural2100896.36
Jaideep Vaidya32778171.18
Vijayalakshmi Atluri43256424.98