A knowledge-based verification method for dynamic access control policies

  • Authors:
  • Masoud Koleini;Mark Ryan

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK;University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  • Venue:
  • ICFEM'11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Formal methods and software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present a new approach for automated knowledge-based verification of access control policies. The verification method not only discovers if a vulnerability exists, but also produces the strategies that can be used by the attacker to exploit the vulnerability. It investigates the information needed by the attacker to achieve the goal and whether he acquires that information when he proceeds through the strategy or not. We provide a policy language for specifying access control rules and the corresponding query language that is suited for expressing the properties we aim to verify. The policy language is expressive enough to handle integrity constraints and policy invariants. Finally, we compare the results and enhancements of the current method - implemented as a policy verification tool called PoliVer - over similar works in the context of dynamic access control policy verification.