SmartGate: a smart push-pull approach to support role-based security in web gateways

  • Authors:
  • Raman Adaikkalavan;Sharma Chakravarthy

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Texas At Arlington, Arlington, TX;The University of Texas At Arlington, Arlington, TX

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Efficient and effective web gateways or proxy servers are important to control the access privileges of users and protect private networks that are connected to the Internet, thus providing a productive and safe web environment. Access control in the form of complex access rules based on users or user sets (groups) has been studied extensively. The objective of this work is to provide role-based (RB) security for web gateways utilizing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). RB security reduces the administrative burden, provides fine grained access control and supports various constraints such as context-aware and temporal seamlessly.In this paper we elaborate on the problems, issues that need to be addressed, and our approach for providing RB security for web gateways by leveraging the flexibility and expressiveness of RBAC. Our approach enables the proxy server to act smarter, rather than just allow or deny access based on access rules, meanwhile preserving the principle of least privileges.