KOZEL: Kernel Organization Zappy Environment for Linux
This report describes application domain, design and usage of Kernel Organization Zappy Environment for Linux (KOZEL, pronounced “kozz’jol”) developed during a term project for Expert Systems cource...
View ArticleMastering Web Services Security
We present material on how to use the architectures and technologies and how to understand the specifications that are available to build a secure Web Services system. Since this technology is rapidly...
View ArticleMethod and System for Authorization and Access to Protected Resources
The present invention relates to the access of data resources using a Resource Access Decision Facility (RAD), preferably a CORBA RAD. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide...
View ArticleMiddleware and Web Services Security
Challenges of designing secure distributed applications are due to distribution, scale and object orientation. We will discuss the functionalities and capabilities of the security mechanisms of today...
View ArticleMiddleware and Web Services Security Mechanisms
Learning objectives: Gain a working knowledge of the security mechanisms of current Middleware and Web Services technologies. Overview: Challenges of designing secure distributed applications are due...
View ArticleObject Security Attributes: Enabling Application-specific Access Control in...
This paper makes two primary contributions toward establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification framework for...
View ArticleObject Security Attributes: Enabling Application-specific Access Control in...
This presentation makes two primary contributions toward establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification framework...
View ArticleOfficial Requirements and Recommendations from Various Organizations on...
This report describes recommendations and official requirements from various organizations that guide architecture of CPR security at BHSSF.
View ArticleOn the Benefits of Decomposing Policy Engines into Components
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and administrators should...
View ArticleOverview of CORBA Security
Outline: • Introduction into computer security • Security in OO systems • CORBA security model overview • Application access control in CORBA • Resource Access Decision Facility • Further Information
View ArticleOverview of Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP)
Outline: - Why Languages for Enterprises? - Introduction - RM-ODP goal - What it de nes - Viewpoints - Modeling in RM-ODP - Languages - Analysis of RM-ODP - Summary - Additional Information
View ArticlePerformance Considerations for a CORBA-based Application Authorization Service
Resource Access Decision (RAD) Service allows separation of authorization from application functionality in distributed application systems by providing a logically centralized authorization control...
View ArticlePreview: Mastering Web Services Security
This presentation gives an overview of the upcoming book on Mastering Web Services Security that I co-authored with my colleagues at Quadrasis.
View ArticleRecycling Authorizations: Toward Secondary and Approximate Authorizations...
In large and complex enterprises, obtaining authorizations could be communicationally and/or computationally expensive, and, due to infrastructure failures, some times even impossible. This paper...
View ArticleRequirements for Access Control: US Healthcare Domain
Roles are important factors in authorization rules. However, other information is essential in order to make authorization decisions at healthcare enterprises. An effective authorization language that...
View ArticleRequirements for Access Control: US Healthcare Domain
Roles are important factors in authorization rules. However, other information is essential in order to make authorization decisions at healthcare enterprises. An effective authorization language that...
View ArticleResource Access Decision Facility: Overview
Outline: • Why you need Resource Access Decision Facility • Main aspects of RAD specification design • Main design decisions made by RAD submission team
View ArticleResource Access Decision Server: Design and Performance Considerations
Presentation on the design and the conducted performance measurements of RAD server prototype built at CADSE. Outline: • Introduction • RAD Specification Overview • RAD Prototype Design • Performance...
View ArticleResource Names for Resource Access Decision (Facility)
Presentation given to the joint SecSIG/CORBAmed session on Resource Access Decision facility, as part of the presentation on the revised submission to the OMG Healthcare Resource Access Control RFP....
View ArticleSecurity Engineering for Large Scale Distributed Applications
The way security mechanisms for large-scale distributed applications are engineered today has a number of serious drawbacks. As a result, secure distributed applications are a) very expensive and...
View ArticleSecurity Engineering for Large Scale Distributed Applications
The way security mechanisms for large-scale distributed applications are engineered today has a number of serious drawbacks. As a result, secure distributed applications are a) very expensive and...
View ArticleSecurity Requirements in Healthcare
Presentation on requirements in US healthcare organizations to security vendors, given to the joint SecSIG/CORBAmed session. Outline: • Risks • Requirements – Security requirements to the healthcare...
View ArticleSoftware Engineering at ECE
This talk gives a brief overview of the Software Engineering teaching and research at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of British Columbia.
View ArticleSPAPI: A Security and Protection Architecture for Physical Infrastructures...
In recent years, concerns about the safety and security of critical infrastructures have increased enormously. The se infrastructures can easily become subjects of physical and cyber attacks. In this...
View ArticleSupporting Relationships in Access Control Using Role Based Access Control
The Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model and mechanism have proven to be useful and effective. This is clear from the many RBAC implementations in commercial products. However, there are many common...
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