Enabling technologies for role based online decision engines

Abstract

The implementation of an RBAC system at the TUB led us towards a specific meaning of role-based access control, where decisions regarding user permissions are based on online evaluation of a distributed RBAC model, we call this approach role-based online decision (RoBOD). Requirements of our project partners and the integration of our solution into application environments showed that a number of enabling technologies, i.e. authentication and secure communication, are necessary to employ RBAC in networked application architectures.