Fuzzy Role-Based Access Control

  • Authors:
  • Carles Martínez-García;Guillermo Navarro-Arribas;Joan Borrell

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information and Communications Engineering (dEIC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;IIIA, Institut dInvestigació en Intel.ligència Artificial - CSIC, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Campus UAB s/n, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;Department of Information and Communications Engineering (dEIC), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) is a widely used access control model, which reduces the maintenance cost of classical identity-based access control. However, despite the benefits of RBAC, there are environments in which RBAC can hardly be applied. We present FRBAC (Fuzzy Role-Based Access Control), a generalization of RBAC through fuzzy relations that extends the applicability of RBAC to environments where authorization-related information is vague. Moreover, FRBAC deals with environments where the actions that can be executed over the resources have a fractional meaning, as data lying in databases and risk-based access control.