Secure Interoperation in a Multidomain Environment Employing RBAC Policies

  • Authors:
  • Basit Shafiq;James B. D. Joshi;Elisa Bertino;Arif Ghafoor

  • Affiliations:
  • IEEE;IEEE Computer Society;IEEE;IEEE

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Multidomain application environments where distributed multiple organizations interoperate with each other are becoming a reality as witnessed by emerging Internet-based enterprise applications. Composition of a global coherent security policy that governs information and resource accesses in such environments is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a policy integration framework for merging heterogeneous Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) policies of multiple domains into a global access control policy. A key challenge in composition of this policy is the resolution of conflicts that may arise among the RBAC policies of individual domains. We propose an integer programming (IP)-based approach for optimal resolution of such conflicts. The optimality criterion is to maximize interdomain role accesses without exceeding the autonomy losses beyond the acceptable limit.