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Adaptive Access Control Emerges
11 August 2009
 
Ant Allan   Earl Perkins  

Adaptive access control is an emerging concept that builds on the concepts of risk-appropriate authentication and fine-grained, context-aware authorization to provide an extremely flexible approach to access control.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

1.0
    
 What Is Access Control?
2.0
    
 What Are the Limitations of Access Control in Legacy Systems?
3.0
    
 Does Role-Based Access Control Address These Limitations?
4.0
    
 What Is Context-Aware Access Control?

4.1
    
 What Kinds of Contextual Information Can Be Used?

4.1.1
    
 User and User Identity
4.1.2
    
 Endpoint and Connectivity
4.1.3
    
 Resource and Target System
4.1.4
    
 Environmental
5.0
    
 Can Authentication Be Context-Aware?
6.0
    
 What Is Risk-Based Authentication?
7.0
    
 Have We Arrived at Adaptive Access Control Yet?

    
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Figure 1. 
 A Conceptual View of Adaptive Access Control
 

Figure 2. 
 A Role Abstracts the Relationship Between Users and Entitlements
 

Figure 3. 
 Data Flow in an XACML-Based Access Control System
 

Figure 4. 
 Categories of Contextual Information
 



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