Access control management in a collaborative environment composed of a multitude of distributed autonomous organizations is a challenging task. To answer the challenge, in this paper we propose a novel approach that incorporates semantic technologies in the Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) approach. Building on the basic principles of ABAC, our approach allows for a highly expressive modeling of the context in which access decisions are made, by providing mechanisms to describe rich relationships among entities, which can evolve over time. In addition, our system works in a truly decentralized manner, which makes it suitable for geographically distributed enterprise systems. We show the feasibility in practice of our approach through some experimental results.

A semantic-based access control mechanism for distributed systems

Sadeghi M.;Sartor L.;Rossi M.
2021-01-01

Abstract

Access control management in a collaborative environment composed of a multitude of distributed autonomous organizations is a challenging task. To answer the challenge, in this paper we propose a novel approach that incorporates semantic technologies in the Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) approach. Building on the basic principles of ABAC, our approach allows for a highly expressive modeling of the context in which access decisions are made, by providing mechanisms to describe rich relationships among entities, which can evolve over time. In addition, our system works in a truly decentralized manner, which makes it suitable for geographically distributed enterprise systems. We show the feasibility in practice of our approach through some experimental results.
2021
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
9781450381048
attribute-based access control
context-aware access control
distributed access control
distributed reasoning
semantic-based access control
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