TY - GEN
T1 - Visualization for access control policy analysis results using multi-level grids
AU - Rao, Prathima
AU - Ghinita, Gabriel
AU - Bertino, Elisa
AU - Lobo, Jorge
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The rapid increase in deployment of policy-based access control systems faces security administrators with the daunting task of managing a large number of complex access control policies. Several policy analysis types, (e.g., policy similarity, policy conflict and change-impact) have been proposed to help administrators maintain consistent and conflict-free policy repositories. However, there has not been much focus on the presentation and the ensuing interpretation of the results of such analyses, which greatly undermines the usability factor. In this paper, we present a novel multi-level grid-based technique for visualizing results of policy analysis. We implemented this technique, and we present a sample policy similarity analysis scenario that highlights the advantages of the proposed result visualization method.
AB - The rapid increase in deployment of policy-based access control systems faces security administrators with the daunting task of managing a large number of complex access control policies. Several policy analysis types, (e.g., policy similarity, policy conflict and change-impact) have been proposed to help administrators maintain consistent and conflict-free policy repositories. However, there has not been much focus on the presentation and the ensuing interpretation of the results of such analyses, which greatly undermines the usability factor. In this paper, we present a novel multi-level grid-based technique for visualizing results of policy analysis. We implemented this technique, and we present a sample policy similarity analysis scenario that highlights the advantages of the proposed result visualization method.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=71049182747&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/POLICY.2009.29
DO - 10.1109/POLICY.2009.29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:71049182747
SN - 9780769537429
T3 - Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, POLICY 2009
SP - 25
EP - 28
BT - Proceedings - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, POLICY 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, POLICY 2009
Y2 - 20 July 2009 through 22 July 2009
ER -