Enforcing ASTD Access-Control Policies with WS-BPEL Processes in SOA Environments

  • Authors:
  • Michel Embe Jiague;Marc Frappier;Frédéric Gervais;Régine Laleau;Richard St-Denis

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Sherbrooke, Canada, and Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, France;Université de Sherbrooke, Canada;Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, France;Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, France;Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Controlling access to the Web services of public agencies and private corporations depends primarily on specifying and deploying functional security rules to satisfy strict regulations imposed by governments, particularly in the financial and health sectors. This paper focuses on one aspect of the SELKIS and EB3SEC projects related to the security of Web-based information systems, namely, the automatic transformation of security rules into WS-BPEL or BPEL, for short processes. The former are instantiated from security-rule patterns written in a graphical notation, called ASTD that is close to statecharts. The latter are executed by a BPEL engine integrated into a policy decision point, which is a component of a policy enforcement manager similar to that proposed in the XACML standard.