Access Control Systems: Security, Identity Management and Trust Models

✍ Scribed by Dr. Messaoud Benantar (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Access Control Systems: Security, Identity Management and Trust Models provides a thorough introduction to the foundations of programming systems security, delving into identity management, trust models, and the theory behind access control models. The book details access control mechanisms that are emerging with the latest Internet programming technologies, and explores all models employed and how they work. The latest role-based access control (RBAC) standard is also highlighted.

This unique technical reference is designed for security software developers and other security professionals as a resource for setting scopes of implementations with respect to the formal models of access control systems. The book is also suitable for advanced-level students in security programming and system design.

✦ Table of Contents

Foundations of Security and Access Control in Computing....Pages 1-39
Introduction to Identity-Management Models....Pages 40-72
Elements of Trust Paradigms in Computing....Pages 73-128
Mandatory-Access-Control Model....Pages 129-146
Discretionary-Access Control and the Access-Matrix Model....Pages 147-167
The Take-Grant Protection Model....Pages 168-179
The Schematic-Protection Model....Pages 180-189
Role-Based Access Control....Pages 190-251

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Data Encryption; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computer Communication Networks