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WANdisco Security for CVS (exe)
Prevents unauthorized access attempts and alerts security administrators immediately when they occur. Allows access control to be implemented at the CVSROOT or SVNROOT, branch, module, directory, or file levels. Role based access control allows separation of user privileges and project resource definitions. Unique access privileges can also be defined for...
Tags: Role-based Access Control, Access Privilege, IP Address, CVS Corp., Authentication, LDAP, Networking, Security, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
Software downloads 2007-11-02
Is your Identity/Access Management solution RBAC compliant?
There seems to be very good enthusiasm for identity management products amongst the end user community as a cost effective solution to manage compliance. The vendors are also vying with each other in advancing the prospects for their products. Many times, the user community are barely informed to appreciate...
Tags: nath@..., Identity/Access Management solution RBAC
Discussion threads 2007-04-19
Smart Implementation of Role-Based Access Control
Role-Based Access Control RBAC is an approach to user provisioning and access control that improves security and compliance while reducing IT administrative costs. RBAC is supported by Novell technologies such as Novell eDirectory and Novell Identity Manager in conjunction with several third-party role-management and role discovery software products. The business...
Tags: Novell Inc., Role-based Access Control, Novell Consulting
White papers 2007-01-01
A Wireless Secure Remote Access Architecture Implementing Role Based Access Control: WiSeR
This paper proposes network architecture for providing secure access to information resources of enterprise network from remote locations in a wireless fashion. This proposed architecture offers a very promising solution for organizations which are in need of a secure, flexible and cost-effective remote access methodology. Security of the proposed architecture...
Tags: Role-based Access Control, Architecture, Wireless, Remote Access, Telecommunications
White papers 2006-12-18
Using Sun Java System Identity Manager With RBAC Profiles in the Solaris OS
The Sun Java System Identity Manager utilizes Resource Adapters to create, modify and delete accounts on systems running the Solaris Operating System. The Identity Manager Resource Adapter needs to be configured with a user that has access to perform user management tasks. The Resource Adapter for the Solaris OS can...
Tags: Role-based Access Control, Java, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Java, Sun Java System Identity Manager, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
White papers 2005-08-01
Using HP-UX Role-Based Access Control
Security - especially platform security - has always been an important issue for enterprise infrastructure. Even so, concepts such as "Individual accountability" and "Least privilege" are not the most stimulating or popular conversation topics, and therefore are often neglected or over-looked by many organizations. Recently introduced legislation - including HIPAA...
Tags: Security, HP-UX, Role-based Access Control, Hewlett-Packard Co., Access Control, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
White papers 2005-04-12
RBAC/MAC Security Analysis and Design for UML
In today's web-based, distributed, and security conscious world, the construction of large-scale software systems is a complex task, requiring the comprehensive specification of requirements. However, the inclusion of security analysis and design has often been an afterthought, relegated to latter stages of the development life cycle or placed in the...
Tags: Security, Role-based Access Control, MAC, UML, Programming Languages, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development
White papers 2004-02-15
Administration of an RBAC System
Recently RBAC (role-based access controls) was found to be among the most attractive solutions for providing access control in web-based e-commerce and e-government applications. Usually, such systems involve a huge number of heterogeneous users working with the systems under different rights and obligations. In an RBAC authorization and access control...
Tags: Role-based Access Control, Administration, Access Control, E-government, Government
White papers 2003-12-08
MSDN Architecture Webcast: Authorization Manager From the Developer Perspective (Level 200)
As corporate security and regulatory compliance requirements increase, the need for a simple and common application authorization model grows. Application developers and enterprise administrators are aligning around Role-Based Access Control RBAC, but they are frustrated by the differences in terminology between various implementations of RBAC. This webcast discusses the Microsoft...
Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Role-based Access Control, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Regulatory Compliance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
Webcasts
Leading Nonprofit Ensures Privacy and Compliance Through Role-Based Access Control
As a nonprofit organization for people who are blind and partially sighted, Lighthouse International places the highest importance on protecting the privacy of the people relying on its services. To increase operational efficiency and address increased patient privacy regulations, Lighthouse set out to launch a new system for managing patient...
Tags: Role-based Access Control, Patient, Compliance, Privacy, Microsoft Corp.
Case studies

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Cisco combines identity and role-based security for a new security architecture
Cisco's new security initiative, called TrustSec, will make it possible for enterprise-wide implementation of role-based access and authentication. An excerpt from InformationWeek: The most important feature of TrustSec is the security measures it assigns based on the roles and identities of users. For example, access to...
Tags: Role-based Security, Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Identity, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-07
Enterprise Dynamic Access Control (EDAC) Overview
The Enterprise Dynamic Access Control EDAC represents an access control model that adheres to the basic principles of Role-Based Access Control RBAC standard published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST. The EDAC accommodates complex and scalable access control situations many government and civilian organizations are experiencing when...
Tags: Access Control, NIST, Enterprise Dynamic Access Control
White papers 2005-05-01
Best Practices in Authentication and Access Control
User authentication is necessary for identity based access control, and 802.1X clearly promises to meet this need. 802.1X has been around for a number of years and has been proposed as the user authentication solution for both wired and wireless LANs. This paper describes 802.1X and its role in pre-connect...
Tags: User Authentication, IEEE 802.1X, Access Control, Best Practice, Authentication, Nevis Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless
White papers 2007-08-08
Fast Exact and Heuristic Methods for Role Minimization Problems
This paper describes several bottom-up approaches to problems in role engineering for Role-Based Access Control RBAC. The salient problems are all NP-complete, even to approximate, yet they find that in instances that arise in practice these problems can be solved in minutes. The paper first considers role minimization, the process...
White papers 2008-04-14
Managing and Securely Determining Security Clearance
Access controls based on Security Labels are made by matching the Security Label against the Security Clearance of the user or location for which the access control check is being made. In order for this check to be valid, it is essential that the correct value of the Security Clearance...
Tags: Access Control, Isode, Security
White papers 2008-03-18
Detection of Network Security Component Misconfiguration by Rewriting and Correlation
The use of firewalls is the dominant method to guarantee network access control, leading to distributed access control scenarios where the access control role is assigned to more than one component. Firewalls are network security components which provide means to filter traffic within corporate networks, as well as to police...
Tags: Network, Access Control, Network Security, Networking, Security
White papers 2006-04-10
Using logins, users, and roles more effectively
Granulate even moreGood article. This is really where you want to map job titles to use cases/tasks. A Manager has nothing to do with a use case, so the manager role should simply belong to, perhaps, the ProductCreator role, the SalaryReviewer role, the SalesReporter role, etc. Define...
Tags: JLRoy, software, job
Discussion threads 2005-04-19
Windows Protection and Network Access Control - Why Organizations Need to Consider Network Access Control as an Important Part of Their Overall Windows Protection Strategy
With more threats to user systems than ever before and corporate users demanding increased access to network-based resources, the risks associated with permitting network access are too great to ignore. Whether there is a need to control remote workers accessing the systems over a VPN, or guests, contractors, and employees...
Tags: Strategy, Symantec Corp., Network, Microsoft Windows, Access Control, Networking, Security
Webcasts 2007-08-07
Authorization-Based Access Control for the Services Oriented Architecture
Several attempts at using the Services Oriented Architecture have failed to achieve their goals of scalability, security, and manageability. These systems, which base access decisions on the identity of the requester, have been found to be inflexible, don't scale well, and are difficult to use and to upgrade. This paper...
Tags: Authorization, SOA, Access Control, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2006-01-26
Supporting Location-Based Conditions in Access Control Policies
Location-Based Access Control LBAC techniques allow taking users' physical location into account when determining their access privileges. This paper presents an approach to LBAC aimed at integrating location-based conditions along with a generic access control model, so that a requestor can be granted or denied access by checking her location...
Tags: Association For Computing Machinery, Access Control, Location, Service Level Management, It Operations, It service Management
White papers 2006-03-21
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