F. Vesuma, MSIS Dept., Rutgers Univ., Newark, NJ, USA
N.H. Minsky, MSIS Dept., Rutgers Univ., Newark, NJ, USA
Current Web technologies use access control lists (ACLs) for enforcing regulations and practices governing businesses today. Having the policy hard-coded into ACLs causes management and security problems which have sofar prevented intranets from achieving their full potential. This paper is about a concrete design of a mechanism that supports policies for regulating access to information via corporate intranet. This mechanism makes a strict separation between the formal statement of a policy, and its enforcement, the latter being carried out by generic policy engines. The proposed mechanism is easy to deploy, requiring no modifications of current Web servers. We provide some preliminary performance results that show that the mechanism is quite affordable, even in its present, experimental stage.
Index Terms:
authorisation; intranets; business data processing; policy-based access control mechanism; corporate Web; access control lists; security problems; management problems; intranets; corporate intranet; formal statement; policy engines
Citation:
V. Ungureanu, F. Vesuma, N.H. Minsky, "A policy-based access control mechanism for the corporate Web," acsac, pp.150, 16th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'00), 2000