A Scalable Modeling Language for Specifying Access Control in Tree Based Structures

Configuring and managing access control in today´s heterogeneous systems is a big challenge. While there exist many standards for authentication, different types of systems often have different methods for configuring the access control. In this paper we propose a new policy based graphical modeling language that can be used for modeling and configuring access control in a wide range of different systems. The only requirement is that the information which is being controlled by the access control system is stored in a tree-based structure.