Law-aware access control: about modeling context and transforming legislation

  • Authors:
  • Michael Stieghahn;Thomas Engel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg;University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Venue:
  • JSAI-isAI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on New frontiers in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Cross-border access to a variety of data defines the daily business of many global companies, including financial institutions. These companies are obliged by law and need to fulfill security objectives specified by legislation. Therefore, they control access to prevent unauthorized users from using data. Security objectives, for example confidentiality or secrecy, are often defined in the widespread eXtensible Access Control Markup Language that promotes interoperability between different systems. In this paper, we show the necessity of incorporating the requirements of sets of legislation into access control. To this end, we describe our legislation model, various types of contextual information, and their interrelationship. We introduce a new policy-combining algorithm that respects the different precedence of laws of different controlling authorities. Finally, we demonstrate how laws may be transformed into policies using the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language.