Extending Role-Based Access Control for Business Usage

Role-based access control (RBAC) is used for managing authorisation in IT systems, by utilising the concept of roles. Existing approaches do not clearly define the term "role" in its different contexts as well as not considering the relation between roles and business process modelling. Therefore this work introduces business and system role-based access control (B&S-RBAC). Established role-based access control models are extended with a business perspective and the term role is defined from a business and from an IT perspective, resulting in business and system roles. The relation between them is shown in a meta-model and the usage of business roles for secure business process modelling is explained.