Modelling dynamic access control policies for web-based collaborative systems

  • Authors:
  • Hasan Qunoo;Mark Ryan

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK;School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • DBSec'10 Proceedings of the 24th annual IFIP WG 11.3 working conference on Data and applications security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a modelling language, called X-Policy, for web-based collaborative systems with dynamic access control policies. The access to resources in these systems depends on the state of the system and its configuration. The X-Policy language models systems as a set of actions. These actions can model system operations which are executed by users. The X-Policy language allows us to specify execution permissions on each action using complex access conditions which can depend on data values, other permissions, and agent roles. We demonstrate that X-Policy is expressive enough to model collaborative conference management systems. We model the EasyChair conference management system and we reason about three security attacks on EasyChair.