Deploying access control in distributed workflow

  • Authors:
  • Samiha Ayed;Nora Cuppens-Boulahia;Frédéric Cuppens

  • Affiliations:
  • ENST-Bretagne, Cesson Sevigne, France;ENST-Bretagne, Cesson Sevigne, France;ENST-Bretagne, Cesson Sevigne, France

  • Venue:
  • AISC '08 Proceedings of the sixth Australasian conference on Information security - Volume 81
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Workflows are operational business processes. Workfow Management Systems (WFMS) are concerned with the control and coordination of these workflows. In recent years, there has been a trend to integrate WFMS in distributed inter-organizational systems. In this case malfunctioning of one WFMS can affect more than one organization, making the correct functioning of a WFMS a critical issue. Thus, an important function of WFMS is to enforce the security of these inter-organizational workflows. Several works have been done to integrate the security aspects in the workflow specification. Unfortunately, these research works generally adopt a centralized management approach and are based on static access control models. In this paper, we suggest a decentralized and dynamic approach to handle access control in workflows.