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Introduction
Helmut Petritsch describes the first holistic approach to Break-Glass which covers the whole life-cycle: from access control modeling (pre-access), to logging the security-relevant system state during Break-Glass accesses (at-access), and the automated analysis of Break-Glass accesses (post-access).
Break-Glass allows users to override security restrictions in exceptional situations. While several Break-Glass models specific to given access control models have already been discussed in research (e.g., extending RBAC with Break-Glass), the author introduces a generic Break-Glass model. The presented model is generic both in the sense that it allows to model existing Break-Glass approaches and that it is independent of the underlying access control model.
Contents
- Generic Break-Glass model and Break-Glass lifecycle
- Policy definition: pre-access
- User information, recording the system state: at-access
- Analysis: post-access
Target Groups
- Researchers and students in the field of computer science and access control, as well as scholars applying the concept of emergency access, e.g., in medical care
- Application developers with demanding requirements regarding the access control system, e.g., using XACML; application architects for systems implementing emergency access
About the Author
Helmut Petritsch is currently working as developer of enterprise software at a German multinational company.
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Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-07365-7
- Copyright Information Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014
- Publisher Name Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden
- eBook Packages Computer Science
- Print ISBN 978-3-658-07364-0
- Online ISBN 978-3-658-07365-7
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