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2007 The Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security
Enhancing Role-Based Access Control Model through Fuzzy Relations
Manchester, United Kingdom
August 29-August 31
ISBN: 0-7695-2876-7
Hassan Takabi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Morteza Amini, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Rasool Jalili, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model is naturally suitable to organizations where users are assigned organizational roles with well-defined privileges. However, due to the large number of users in nowadays online services of organizations and enterprises, assigning users to roles is a tiresome task and maintaining user-role assignment up-to- date is costly and error-prone. Additionally, with the increasing number of users, RBAC may have problems in prohibiting cheat and changing roles of users. In order to categorize information and formulate security policies, human decision making is required which is naturally fuzzy in the real world. This leads using a fuzzy approach to address the issue in order to provide a more practical solution. In this paper, applicability of fuzzy set theory to RBAC has been investigated by identifying access control building blocks which are fuzzy in essence. An existing RBAC model is extended to allow imprecise access control policies, using the concept of trustworthiness which is fuzzy in nature. We call the extended model as Fuzzy RBAC. Applicability of the extended model has been evaluated through some case studies.
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Hassan Takabi, Morteza Amini, Rasool Jalili, "Enhancing Role-Based Access Control Model through Fuzzy Relations," ias, pp.131-136, 2007 The Third International Symposium on Information Assurance and Security, 2007
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