Title
Policy reconciliation for access control in dynamic cross-enterprise collaborations.
Abstract
In dynamic cross-enterprise collaborations, different enterprises form a - possibly temporary - business relationship. To integrate their business processes, enterprises may need to grant each other limited access to their information systems. Authentication and authorization are key to secure information handling. However, access control policies often rely on non-standardized attributes to describe the roles and permissions of their employees which convolutes cross-organizational authorization when business relationships evolve quickly. Our framework addresses the managerial overhead of continuous updates to access control policies for enterprise information systems to accommodate disparate attribute usage. By inferring attribute relationships, our framework facilitates attribute and policy reconciliation, and automatically aligns dynamic entitlements during the evaluation of authorization decisions. We validate our framework with a Industry 4.0 motivating scenario on networked production where such dynamic cross-enterprise collaborations are quintessential. The evaluation reveals the capabilities and performance of our framework, and illustrates the feasibility of liberating the security administrator from manually provisioning and aligning attributes, and verifying the consistency of access control policies for cross-enterprise collaborations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/17517575.2017.1355985
ENTERPRISE INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Security,policy-based access control,dynamic cross-enterprise collaboration,authorization,enterprise computing tools
Information system,Computer access control,Authentication,Business process,Entitlement,Computer science,Knowledge management,Enterprise information system,Business relationship management,Access control
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
12.0
3
1751-7575
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Davy Preuveneers170565.56
Wouter Joosen22898287.70
Elisabeth Ilie Zudor323.53