A Policy Framework for Access Management in Federated Information Sharing

A Policy Engineering Framework for Federated Access Management

Bhatti, Rafae A. Ph.D., Purdue University, May, 2006. A Policy Engineering Framework for Federated Access Management. Major Professor: Arif Ghafoor. Federated systems are an emerging paradigm for information sharing and integration. Such systems require access management policies that not only protect user privacy and resource security but also allow scalable and seamless interoperation. Curren...

CERIAS Tech Report 2005-42 A POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR ACCESS MANAGEMENT IN FEDERATED INFORMATION SHARING

Automatic Compliance of Privacy Policies in Federated Digital Identity

Privacy [13] in the digital world is an important problem which is becoming even more pressing as new collaborative applications are developed. The lack of privacy preserving mechanisms is particularly problematic in federated identity management contexts. In such a context, users can seamlessly interact with a variety of federated web services, through the use of single-sign-on mechanisms and ...

Design and Implementation of Collaborative Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Role based

In a real-world collaborative data sharing scenario in cloud computing, there are multiple users who can access the resource shared by multiple data owners anytime and anywhere. The evolution of user status, roles, and privilege in the federated data sharing environment become even more and more complex to handle. Efficiently managing multiple access control policies and providing appropriate a...

Managing Identity and Authorization for Community Clouds

A community cloud operates to serve multiple organizations who have entered into sharing arrangements with one or more cloud providers. Members of the participating organizations may also collaborate on shared projects, which may lead them to exercise shared control over virtual machines or other cloud-hosted resource instances. Software running in the cloud instances may serve the community me...