Administration in role-based access control

  • Authors:
  • Ninghui Li;Ziqing Mao

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN;Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • ASIACCS '07 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM symposium on Information, computer and communications security
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Administration of large-scale RBAC systems is a challenging open problem. We propose a principled approach in designing and analyzing administrative models for RBAC. We identify six design requirements for administrative models of RBAC. These design requirements are motivated by three principles for designing security mechanisms: (1) flexibility and scalability, (2) psychological acceptability, and (3) economy of mechanism. We then use these requirements to analyze several approaches to RBAC administration, including ARBAC97 [21, 23, 22], SARBAC [4, 5], and the RBAC system in the Oracle DBMS. Based on these requirements and the lessons learned in analyzing existing approaches, we design UARBAC, a new family of administrative models for RBAC that has significant advantages over existing models.