Securing information systems from cyber attacks, malware and
internal cyber threats is a difficult problem. Attacks on authentication and
authorization (access control) is one of the more predominant and potentially
rewarding attacks on distributed architectures. Attribute-Based Access Control
(ABAC) is one of the more recent mechanisms to provide access control
capabilities. ABAC combines the strength of cryptography with semantic
expressions and relational assertions. By this composition, a powerful grammar
is devised that can not only define complex and scalable access control policies,
but defend against attacks on the policy itself. This thesis demonstrates
how ABAC can be used as a primary access control solution for enterprise and
commercial applications. / Graduate / 0984 / djbchepe@gmail.com
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/4561 |
| Date | 26 April 2013 |
| Creators | Cheperdak, David J. B. |
| Contributors | Coady, Yvonne, Neville, Stephen William, McGeer, Patrick C. |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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