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OWL Specification for RBAC Access Control in ROLWBAC Model

This review explores how the Web Ontology Language (OWL) can be utilized to define role-based access control functions in the ROLWBAC security model. It describes the assignment of roles, permissions, and activation rules, as well as the association of roles with permitted and prohibited actions.

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OWL Specification for RBAC Access Control in ROLWBAC Model

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  1. T. Hill Review of:ROWLBAC – Representing Role Based Access Control in OWLT. Finin, A. Joshi L. Kagal, B. Thuraisingham, J. Niu, R. Sandhu, W. Winsborough 10/13/2008 Problem: Using the hierarchy diagram below, describe how OWL (Web Ontology Language) can be used to specify the following RBAC security model access control functions; assign the role of Person and two sub-class roles of Citizen and Visitor, assign to Citizen the permitted actions of Vote, Work, Jury, assign to Visitor a prohibited action of Work. Make Alice an active Citizen and Bob an active Visitor. [note - general descriptive language is acceptable, exact RDF/OWL syntax is not necessary]. • Motivation • Applications – sophisticated, intelligent, open and dynamic environments • Future – Grid computing, intelligent agents, negotiate exchange of information • Security – of future applications, regardless of infrastructure, including the cloud • Bring together two parallel themes • Access Control Models – RBAC96, NIST Standard, RT, Usage Control • Policy Languages – XACML, Ponder, Rei, KAoS

  2. ROWLBAC – Semantic Web and OWL • Semantic Web • Berners-Lee vision • Knowledge published so humans and computers can understand and reason • Technology • W3C standards RDF (Resource Description Framework) triple • //..html has a creation-date whose value is August 16, 1999 • Description Logic

  3. ROWLBAC – Roles as Classes, Permissions, Activation, Enforcing • Hierarchy of roles • Enforcing RBAC activation rule { ?ACTION a ActivateRole; subject ?SUBJ; object ?ROLE. ?SUBJ a ?ROLE. ?ROLE activeForm ?AROLE. ?AROLE rdfs:subClassOf ActiveRole. } => { ?ACTION a PermittedRoleActivation; subject ?SUBJ; object ?ROLE. ?SUBJ a ?AROLE }. • Associating permissions with roles PermittedVoteAction a rdfs:Class; rdfs:subClassOf rbac:PermittedAction; owl:equivalentClass [ a owl:Class; owl:intersectionOf ( Vote [ a owl:Restriction; owl:allValuesFrom ex:ActiveCitizen; owl:onProperty rbac:subject ] ) ] • Assigning roles and activation in a session

  4. Person Citizen Permitted: Vote, Work, Jury Visitor Prohibited: Work Bob active Alice active ROWLBAC – A Proposed Solution Problem: Using the hierarchy diagram below, describe how OWL (Web Ontology Language) can be used to specify the following RBAC security model access control functions; assign the role of Person and two sub-class roles of Citizen and Visitor, assign to Citizen the permitted actions of Vote, Work, Jury, assign to Visitor a prohibited action of Work. Make Alice an active Citizen and Bob an active Visitor. [note - general descriptive language is acceptable, exact RDF/OWL syntax is not necessary]. Proposed solution: 1. Use RDF/OWL to define Citizen as a subclass of Person and Visitor as a subclass of Person 2. Use RDF/OWL to define Vote as a permitted action of Citizen and Work as a permitted action of Citizen and Jury as a permitted action of Citizen And Work as a prohibited action of Visitor 3. At run time, set Alice as an active Citizen and Bob as an active Visitor

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