Open Systems Laboratory at Illinois

Towards a flexible fine-grained access control system for modern cloud applications

By Reza Shiftehfar, Kirill Mechitov, and Gul A. Agha. In 2014 IEEE 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing, Anchorage, AK, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2014, 966–967. IEEE Computer Society, 2014.

DOI:
10.1109/CLOUD.2014.144
Publisher Link:
https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2014.144

Abstract

The fast growth of cloud applications highlights the requirement of appropriate security controls to restrict access to shared resources limited to authorized users. Existing authorization systems are not primarily designed for cloud environments and do not provide the required flexibility, adaptability, elasticity, scalability, or fine-grainedness of cloud applications. This paper outlines an ongoing effort in development of a flexible fine-grained access control system for modern cloud-based applications. Modern cloud applications are distinctive in that the required authorization rules are defined by the organizations owning data and resources, before the application logic can be developed by their programmers. Although this simplifies cloud application development and provides flexibility and adaptability to potential future policy changes, it highlights the need for an adaptive flexible authorization system.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{conf/IEEEcloud/ShiftehfarMA14,
    author = "Shiftehfar, Reza and Mechitov, Kirill and Agha, Gul A.",
    title = "Towards a Flexible Fine-Grained Access Control System for
             Modern Cloud Applications",
    biburl = "https://dblp.org/rec/bib/conf/IEEEcloud/ShiftehfarMA14",
    booktitle = "2014 {IEEE} 7th International Conference on Cloud
                 Computing, Anchorage, AK, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2014",
    crossref = "conf/IEEEcloud/2014",
    doi = "10.1109/CLOUD.2014.144",
    pages = "966--967",
    timestamp = "Thu, 15 Jun 2017 01:00:00 +0200",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2014.144",
    year = "2014",
}

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    title = "2014 {IEEE} 7th International Conference on Cloud
             Computing, Anchorage, AK, USA, June 27 - July 2, 2014",
    biburl = "https://dblp.org/rec/bib/conf/IEEEcloud/2014",
    isbn = "978-1-4799-5063-8",
    publisher = "{IEEE} Computer Society",
    timestamp = "Thu, 22 Dec 2016 15:10:06 +0100",
    url = "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6
           968679",
    year = "2014",
}