Design of an access control module for an instrumentation gateway

Author

Greeff, Paul G. ; Hancke, Gerhard P. ; Van der Merwe, Derrick L. ; Horváth, László

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr., Electron. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Pretoria, South Africa

fYear

2003

fDate

27-29 July 2003

Firstpage

119

Lastpage

124

Abstract

This paper describes some of the preliminary work performed on a resource access control module for an instrumentation gateway. The access control module employs a variation of the popular RBAC (role based access control) scheme described by various authors including Ferraiolo et al. (1999). The gateway has very little security, hence, any user able to log on to the system is able to control any resource. This module aims to implement a pluggable module whereby users are granted access to various parts of the system depending on their user rights whilst giving the administrator a very powerful method of restricting access without sacrificing ease of administration.

Keywords

access protocols; authorisation; internetworking; network servers; Computer Network and Security Group; Department of EE&C; ICT TUV; IGUANA gateway; RBAC scheme; access control module design; access restriction; decentralized control system; gateway security; instrumentation gateway; network access; network administration; pluggable module; resource access control module; role based access control; software module; user access; user right; Access control; Application software; Automation; Computer networks; Control systems; Electrostatic discharge; Instruments; Permission; Power system security; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems, 2003. VECIMS '03. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7785-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VECIMS.2003.1227041

Filename

1227041