Role hierarchies are fundamental to the role based access control (RBAC) model. The notion of role hierarchy is a well understood concept that allows senior roles to inherit the p...
The usability of access control mechanisms in modern distributed systems has been widely criticized but little studied. In this paper, we carefully examine one such widely deploye...
In enterprise environment, security becomes increasingly important and costly. Enterprises are struggling to protect the increasing amount of disparate resources. Simple patchwork ...
Chen Zhao, Yang Chen, Dawei Xu, NuerMaimaiti Heili...
—Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. As promising as it is, this para...
In distributed component environment, a Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) server manages all authorization policies of components in the same domains whereas the components are dist...