Authorisation in Context: Incorporating Context-Sensitivity into an Access Control Framework

Abstract

With sensitive information about ourselves now distributed across personal devices, people need to make access control decisions for different contexts of use. However, despite advances in improving the usability of access control for both developers and users, we still lack insights about how the intentions behind policy decisions in different contexts of use are shaped. In this paper, we describe how context was incorporated into an access control framework using a study of how context influences access control decision making. We describe how the main recommendations arising from this study were used to build context into a policy editor for this access control framework.

Affiliations

Bournemouth University

University of Oxford

Politecnico di Torino

AmbieSense Ltd

AmbieSense Ltd / City University London

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Contributors

Shamal Faily

John Lyle

Ivan Fléchais

Andrea Atzeni

Cesare Cameroni

Hans Myrhaug

AyŞe Göker

Robert Kleinfeld

Conference

Publication date: September 2014

Publication date (Print): September 2014

Pages: 189-194

ID: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2014.29

Copyright statement: © Shamal Faily et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014), Southport, UK

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 28

Conference location: Southport, UK

Conference date: 9 - 12 September 2014

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2014)

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing