A note on the formalisation of UCON

  • Authors:
  • Helge Janicke;Antonio Cau;Hussein Zedan

  • Affiliations:
  • De Montfort University, Leicester, UK;De Montfort University, Leicester, UK;De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Usage Control (UCON) Models, similar to Access Control Models, control and govern the users' access to resources and services that are available in the system. One of the major improvements of UCON over traditional access control models is the continuity of the control and the concept of attribute mutability. In this paper we provide an alternative formalisation of the UCON model that relaxes many of the assumptions made in earlier formalisations of the model. We question the enforceability of UCON policies as described by previous formalisations and improve on it.