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1 1 Attribute-Based Access Control Models and Beyond Prof. Ravi Sandhu Executive Director, Institute for Cyber Security Lutcher Brown Endowed Chair in Cyber Security University of Texas at San Antonio Cybersecurity and Privacy (CySeP) Winter School KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 29 October 2014 ravi.sandhu@utsa.edu, www.profsandhu.com, www.ics.utsa.edu © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Institute for Cyber Security

2 Cyber Security Technologies © Ravi Sandhu 2 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! AUTHENTICATION INTRUSION/MALWARE DETECTION AND AUDIT CRYPTOGRAPHY ACCESS CONTROL ASSURANCE RISK ANALYSIS SECURITY ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT

3  Analog Hole  Inference  Covert Channels  Side Channels  Phishing  Social Engineering  Attack Asymmetry  Privacy  …. © Ravi Sandhu 3 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Security Limitations Can manage Cannot eliminate

4 © Ravi Sandhu 4 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Discretionary Access Control (DAC), 1970 Mandatory Access Control (MAC), 1970 Role Based Access Control (RBAC), 1995 Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), ????

5 © Ravi Sandhu 5 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Discretionary Access Control (DAC), 1970 Mandatory Access Control (MAC), 1970 Role Based Access Control (RBAC), 1995 Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), ???? Fixed policy Flexible policy

6 © Ravi Sandhu 6 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Discretionary Access Control (DAC), 1970 Mandatory Access Control (MAC), 1970 Role Based Access Control (RBAC), 1995 Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), ???? Administration Driven Automated Adaptive

7 © Ravi Sandhu 7 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Discretionary Access Control (DAC), 1970 Mandatory Access Control (MAC), 1970 Role Based Access Control (RBAC), 1995 Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), ???? Enterprise Oriented Beyond Enterprise

8 © Ravi Sandhu 8 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Discretionary Access Control (DAC), 1970 Mandatory Access Control (MAC), 1970 Role Based Access Control (RBAC), 1995 Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC), ???? Messy or Chaotic?

9  Discretionary Access Control (DAC), 1970  Owner controls access  But only to the original, not to copies  Grounded in pre-computer policies of researchers  Mandatory Access Control (MAC), 1970  Synonymous to Lattice-Based Access Control (LBAC)  Access based on security labels  Labels propagate to copies  Grounded in pre-computer military and national security policies  Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), 1995  Access based on roles  Can be configured to do DAC or MAC  Grounded in pre-computer enterprise policies © Ravi Sandhu 9 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Models Numerous other models but only 3 successes: SO FAR

10 10 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Access Control Models © Ravi Sandhu Policy Specification Policy Reality Policy Enforcement Policy Administration MAC, DAC Main focus RBAC, ABAC Initial focus RBAC, ABAC Next step focus MAC, DAC Easy (relatively)

11 © Ravi Sandhu 11 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! The RBAC Story RBAC96 model NIST-ANSI Standard Proposed NIST-ANSI Standard Adopted Ludwig Fuchs, Gunther Pernul and Ravi Sandhu, Roles in Information Security-A Survey and Classification of the Research Area, Computers & Security, Volume 30, Number 8, Nov. 2011, pages 748-76

12 12 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! RBAC96 Model © Ravi Sandhu Constraints

13 13 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! RBAC Policy Configuration Points © Ravi Sandhu Constraints Security Architect Security Administrator User Security Architect Security Administrator Security Architect

14 Fundamental Theorem of RBAC © Ravi Sandhu 14 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact!  RBAC can be configured to do MAC  RBAC can be configured to do DAC  RBAC is policy neutral RBAC is neither MAC nor DAC!

15  Role granularity is not adequate leading to role explosion  Researchers have suggested several extensions such as parameterized privileges, role templates, parameterized roles (1997-)  Role design and engineering is difficult and expensive  Substantial research on role engineering top down or bottom up (1996-), and on role mining (2003-)  Assignment of users/permissions to roles is cumbersome  Researchers have investigated decentralized administration (1997-), attribute-based implicit user-role assignment (2002-), role-delegation (2000-), role-based trust management (2003-), attribute-based implicit permission-role assignment (2012-)  Adjustment based on local/global situational factors is difficult  Temporal (2001-) and spatial (2005-) extensions to RBAC proposed  RBAC does not offer an extension framework  Every shortcoming seems to need a custom extension  Can ABAC unify these extensions in a common open-ended framework? © Ravi Sandhu 15 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! RBAC Shortcomings

16 16 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! RBAC Shortcomings © Ravi Sandhu Constraints Hard Enough Impossible

17 17 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New User (Identity) Attributes Public-keys + Secured secrets

18 18 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New User (Identity) Attributes Public-keys + Secured secrets X.509 Identity Certificates X.500 Directory Pre Internet, early 1990s

19 19 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New User (Identity) Attributes Public-keys + Secured secrets X.509 Identity Certificates X.509 Attribute Certificates Post Internet, late 1990s

20 20 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New User (Identity) Attributes Public-keys + Secured secrets Post Internet, late 1990s SPKI Certificates

21 21 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New User (Identity) Attributes Public-keys + Secured secrets Mature Internet, 2000s Anonymous Credentials

22 22 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New Action User Subject Object Context Policy Authorization Decision Yes/No Attributes

23 23 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC is not New Action User Subject Object Context Policy Authorization Decision Yes/No Attributes Mature Internet, 2000s Usage Control XACML Attribute-Based Encryption

24 © Ravi Sandhu 24 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC Status RBAC96 paper Proposed Standard Adopted ABAC still in pre/early phase 1990? 2014

25  Attributes are name:value pairs  possibly chained  values can be complex data structures  Associated with  actions  users  subjects  objects  contexts  policies  Converted by policies into rights just in time  policies specified by security architects  attributes maintained by security administrators  but also possibly by users OR reputation and trust mechanisms  Inherently extensible © Ravi Sandhu 25 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

26  An ABAC model requires  identification of policy configuration points (PCPs)  languages and formalisms for each PCP  A core set of PCPs can be discovered by building the ABACα model to unify simple forms of DAC, MAC and RBAC  Additional ABAC models can then be developed by  increasing the sophistication of the ABACα PCPs  discovering additional PCPs driven by requirements beyond DAC, MAC and RBAC © Ravi Sandhu 26 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABACα Hypothesis (DBSEC 2012) A small but crucial first step

27 27 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABACα Model Structure © Ravi Sandhu Policy Configuration Points

28 28 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABACα Model Structure © Ravi Sandhu Policy Configuration Points Can be configured to do DAC, MAC, RBAC

29 29 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC β Scope 3. Subject attributes constrained by attributes of subjects created by the same user. 5. Meta-Attributes 2. Subject attribute constraints policy are different at creation and modification time. 1. Context Attributes 4. Policy Language 1, 2, 4, 5 1, 4, 5 4, 5 1,4 1, 4, 5 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 4 4

30 30 ABAC β Model

31 31 © Ravi Sandhu World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! Beyond ABAC Security Access Control Trust Risk Attributes Relationships Provenance

32  GURA model for user-attribute assignment  Safety analysis of ABAC α and ABAC β  Undecidable safety for ABAC models  Decidable safety for ABAC with finite fixed attributes  Constraints in ABAC  ABAC Cloud IaaS implementations (OpenStack)  Attribute Engineering  Attribute Mining  Unification of Attributes, Relationships and Provenance © Ravi Sandhu 32 World-Leading Research with Real-World Impact! ABAC Research at ICS

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