Injecting a permission-based delegation model to secure web-based workflow systems

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoran Wang;Coskun Bayrak

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas;Computer Science Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Venue:
  • ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Web-based workflow systems have emerged in almost every business because they can support dynamic business processes over heterogeneous computing systems which is the requirement of a modern business. At the same time security and flexibility have become the two most important aspects in those systems. Role-based Access Control has been injected to Web-based workflow systems to control access (without hindering the process), which has greatly facilitated the access control management. However, a high-level user may want to delegate one of his permissions to a member. In this case, a flexible delegation would be required to achieve this functionality. In this research, we investigated the idea of delegation and developed a framework for injecting Permissionbased Delegation Model (PBDM(WEB)) to secure Web-based workflow systems. PBDM(WEB) supports Role-based Access Control, flexible permission-based delegation and ability-based delegation, interoperation among multi-domain systems and consistency of authorization.