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      A Semantic Approach for Access Control in Web Services

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            Abstract

            One of the most important features of XML Web services is that they can be easily accessed over the Internet, but this makes them vulnerable to a series of security threats. What makes security for web services so challenging is their distributed and heterogeneous nature. In this sense, this paper presents an access control system for Web services. We introduce the Semantic Policy Language (SPL) for the description of access control criteria based on the use of attribute certificates. This language has been specifically designed to take advantage of semantic information about resources and the context to achieve full (syntactic and semantic) validation of policies. Furthermore, another objective in its design has been to facilitate the security management. In particular, SPL is modular, enables the abstraction and reuse of components, the composition of SPL policies in an unambiguous way, and the dynamic instantiation of parameters based on semantic properties about resources. Finally, the semantic integration of a Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI) in access control systems of heterogeneous Web services built upon SPL enables their interoperability.

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            Conference
            December 2002
            December 2002
            : 1-9
            Affiliations
            [0001]Computer Science Department, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EW2002.3
            5515448c-b780-46b4-ba07-f698d9230a27
            © M. I. Yagüe et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. EuroWeb 2002 Conference

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            EuroWeb 2002 Conference
            EW
            St Anne’s College, Oxford, UK
            17-18 December 2002
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            EuroWeb
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

            Self URI (article page): https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/EW2002.3
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            Categories
            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

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