An Integrated Approach for the Enforcement of Contextual Permissions and Pre-Obligations

  • Authors:
  • Yehia Elrakaiby;Frédéric Cuppens;Nora Cuppens-Boulahia

  • Affiliations:
  • TELECOM Bretagne, France;TELECOM Bretagne, France;TELECOM Bretagne, France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Pre-obligations denote actions that may be required before access is granted. The successful fulfillment of pre-obligations leads to the authorization of the requested access. Pre-obligations enable a more flexible enforcement of authorization policies. This paper formalizes interactions between the obligation and authorization policy states when pre-obligations are supported and investigates their use in a practical scenario. The main advantage of the presented approach is that it gives pre-obligations both declarative semantics using predicate logic and operational semantics using Event-Condition-Action ECA rules. Furthermore, the presented framework enables policy designers to easily choose to evaluate any pre-obligation either 1 statically an access request is denied if the pre-obligation has not been fulfilled; or 2 dynamically users are given the possibility to fulfill the pre-obligation after the access request and before access is authorized.