Access control validation by ontologies

Author

Mejri, Mohamed ; Sadio, Etienne Theodore ; Arrachid, Khadija ; Lathe, Memel Emmanuel

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Laval Univ., Quebec City, QC, Canada

fYear

2013

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

68

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to show how we can automatically extract access control information from Windows and Linux devices in order to analyze them in an automatic way by using ontologies. The extracted data related to access control are used to instantiate a defined ontology. After that, some reasoning engines are used to query the ontology in order to understand the implemented security policy or to compare it with an expected one.

Keywords

Linux; authorisation; inference mechanisms; ontologies (artificial intelligence); query processing; Linux devices; Windows; access control validation; automatic access control information extraction; data extract; ontology; ontology querying; reasoning engines; security policy; Access control; Linux; OWL; Ontologies; Permission; Resource description framework; ACL; Access control; Linux permissions; OWL; Ontology; RBAC; Windows permissions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT), 2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0419-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645642

Filename

6645642