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SpatioTemporal RBAC Profile for XACML

A. A. Abd El-Aziz, A. Kannan

Abstract


XACML (extensible Access Control Markup Language) is an open standard language based on XML. It’s the de facto language designed to describe the security policy and the access permission of network service, digital rights management and enterprise security applications information. RBAC profile of XACML is used to express policies that use role based access control. However, RBAC access decision is not influenced by the spatiotemporal context of both the subjects and the objects in the system. In this paper, we extend this profile with spatiotemporal RBAC profile. It incorporates different constraints dependent on spatiotemporal conditions. The spatiotemporal conditions allow to enhance the access control of XACML by specifying a wide variety of spatiotemporal access control policies. The extension facilitates the administration by providing a convenient and efficient way of managing access control policies.


Keywords


XACML, RBAC, Access Control, Spatiotempo- Ral Policy

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