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Policy analysis for administrative role based access control without separate administration

  • Ping Yang
  • , Mikhail Gofman
  • , Zijiang Yang
  • State University of New York Binghamton University
  • California State University Fullerton

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Abstract

Access control is widely used in large systems for restricting resource access to authorized users. In particular, role based access control (RBAC) is a generalized approach to access control and is well recognized for its many advantages in managing authorization policies. This paper considers user-role reachability analysis of administrative role based access control (ARBAC), which defines administrative roles and specifies how members of each administrative role can change the RBAC policy. Most existing works on user-role reachability analysis assume the separate administration restriction in ARBAC policies. While this restriction greatly simplifies the user-role reachability analysis, it also limits the expressiveness and applicability of ARBAC. In this paper, we consider analysis of ARBAC without the separate administration restriction and present new techniques to reduce the number of ARBAC rules and users considered during analysis. We also present a number of parallel algorithms that speed up the analysis on multi-core systems. The experimental results show that our techniques significantly reduce the analysis time, making it practical to analyze ARBAC without separate administration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData and Applications Security and Privacy XXVII - 27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference, DBSec 2013, Proceedings
Pages49-64
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2013 - Newark, NJ, United States
Duration: 15 Jul 201317 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7964 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNewark, NJ
Period15/07/1317/07/13

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