An Extended Role-Based Access Control Model for Delegating Obligations

  • Authors:
  • Meriam Ben-Ghorbel-Talbi;Frédéric Cuppens;Nora Cuppens-Boulahia;Adel Bouhoula

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut TELECOM/Telecom Bretagne, Cesson Sévigné Cedex, France 35576 and SUP'COM Tunis, Ariana, Tunisie 2083;Institut TELECOM/Telecom Bretagne, Cesson Sévigné Cedex, France 35576;Institut TELECOM/Telecom Bretagne, Cesson Sévigné Cedex, France 35576;SUP'COM Tunis, Ariana, Tunisie 2083

  • Venue:
  • TrustBus '09 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The main aim of access control models is to provide means to simplify the management of the security policy, which is a fastidious and error-prone task. Supporting delegation is considered as an important mean to decentralize the administration and therefore to allow security policy to be more flexible and easier to manipulate. Our main contribution is the proposition of a unified model to the administration and delegation of obligations. Managing such delegations implies more requirements than managing traditional privileges delegation. In fact, delegating obligations may include two interpretations: the delegation of the obligation and the delegation of the responsibility related to this obligation. Therefore, it is important to deal with these two notions separately. Moreover, since delegating an obligation involves the delegation of sanctions, then the consent of the user who receives this delegation may be required in some cases. We address in this paper these requirements and we propose a formalism to deal with them.