Rule-Based RBAC with Negative Authorization

  • Authors:
  • Mohammad A. Al-Kahtani;Ravi Sandhu

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Department of Saudi Air Defense;George Mason University & NSD Security

  • Venue:
  • ACSAC '04 Proceedings of the 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

RBAC has proven to be a flexible and useful access control model in practice. Rule-Based RBAC family of models was developed based on RBAC to overcome some of its limitations. One particular model of this family, which we call RB-RBAC-ve, introduces the concept of negative authorization to the RBAC arena. This paper provides a more detailed analysis of RB-RBAC-ve. The analysis includes user authorization, conflict among rules, conflict resolution polices, the impact of negative authorization on role hierarchies and enforcement architecture.