2008 IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks
Concurrent Enforcement of Usage Control Policies
June 02-June 04
ISBN: 978-0-7695-3133-5
Policy-based approaches to the management of systems distinguish between the specification of requirements, in the form of policies, and their enforcement on the system.??In this work we focus on the latter aspect and investigate the enforcement of stateful policies in a concurrent environment.??As a representative of stateful policies weuse the UCON model and show how dependencies between policy rules affect their enforcement.??We propose a technique for enforcing policies concurrently based on the static analysis of dependencies between policies.??The potential of our technique for improving the efficacy of enforcement mechanisms is illustrated using a small, but representative example.
Index Terms:
System Management, Policy, Enforcement, Usage Control
Citation:
Helge Janicke, Antonio Cau, Fran?ois Siewe, Hussein Zedan, "Concurrent Enforcement of Usage Control Policies," policy, pp.111-118, 2008 IEEE Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, 2008