• Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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• 2005.03a
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• pp.62-67
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• 2005

In traditional approach, enterprise-wide consistent security policy enforcement for applications is very difficult task. Therefore, industry is now moving towards new unified enterprise application security concept that consist of centralized authentication and authorization mechanism. The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML); an XML-based standard defined by OASIS, is most suitable choice which can support centralized, role based, context aware access control mechanism. It is designed to provide universal standard for writing authorization policies and access control request/response language for managing access to the resources. This paper includes a brief overview on XACML and discusses its benefits, limitations and a data flow process. We propose a new generic access control architecture that supports enterprise wide centralized application level access control mechanism using XACML. The other benefits which can be achieved through this architecture are, reduce adnministration cost and complexity, support of heterogeneous computing platforms, centralized monitoring system, automatic fail over, scalability and availability, open standard based solution and secure communication.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

This paper formally defines a role-driven security and access control model of a business process in order eventually to provide a theoretical basis for realizing the secured business process management systems. That is, we propose a graphical representation and formal description of the mechanism that generates a set of role-driven security and access control models from a business process modeled by the information control net(ICN) modeling methodology that is a typical business process modeling approach for defining and specifying business processes. Based upon the mechanism, we are able to design and accomplish a secured business process management system that provides an unified resource access control mechanism of the business process management engine domain's and the application domain's. Finally, we strongly believe that the secured access control policies from the role-driven security and access control model can be easily transformed into the RBAC(Role-based Access Control) model that is a standardized security technology for computer and communications systems of commercial and civilian government organizations.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.2047-2050
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• 2002

At present, many applications independently provide access control for their own resources, for example Web, Databases and Operating Systems, etc. Such independent access control systems result in multiple access control configurations each of which deals with the access control in its own application context. Since those multiple configurations are operated in isolation, and maintained by possibly different administrators, they are likely to be incoherent. In this paper, we propose a logical specification to reason about multiple access control configurations. Our specification can be used to detect the incoherence in multiple configurations. Furthermore, it of offers many kinds of policies for multiple configurations that can capture several kinds of requirements for multiple access control systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.466-468
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• 2002

웹서비스의 등장으로 XML이 기반기술로서 자리 매김하고 있는 현재, XML을 이용하여 여러 표준기술을 제정하려는 움직임이 많아지고 있다. XACML은 접근제어 리스트(access control list)를 통해 보안이 요구되는 자원에 대해 미세한 접근 제어 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 XML 기반의 언어이다. XACML은 SAML PDP(Policy Decision Point)의 일부로서 역할을 수행 할 수 있으며 각 정의에 따라 각각의 사용자 별 XML 문서 접근 정책을 수립하고 적용 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 XML기반의 Access Control 표준인 XACML에 대하여 분석하고 적용방법에 대하여 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.217-225
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• 2010

Among web-based systems being widely used now, there are so many systems which are still using an user-level access control method. By successfully applying role-based access control(RBAC) to web-based application systems, we can expect to have an effective means with reinforced security for Internet-based systems. In order to apply RBAC to web-based application systems, we should come up with a system architecture for it. I proposed a system architecture which is needed to apply RBAC to web-based application systems. The proposed system architecture is largely composed of system composition and system functioning. For details, firstly, a certificate used by RBAC is specified. Secondly, a system architecture using a user-pull method is proposed and overall system components are mentioned with a role server being centered. Then, I showed how the system architecture can work to carry out RBAC on web-based application systems. Lastly, the analyses on the proposed system architecture are described for the purpose of proving its feasibility.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.63-69
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to design a system model which is needed for integrating the secure role-based access control model into web-based application systems. For this purpose, firstly, the specific system architecture model using a user-pull method is presented. This model can be used as a design paradigm. Secondly, the practical system working model is proposed. which specifies the mechanism that performs role-based access control in the environment of web-based application systems. Finally, the comparison and analysis is shown in which the merits with the proposed system model is presented.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.352-362
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• 2017

This paper analyzes security threats in Security Enhanced (SE) Android and proposes a new technique to efficiently protect application data including private information on rooted Android phones. On an unrooted device, application data can be accessed by the application itself according to the access control models. However, on a rooted device, a root-privileged shell can disable part or all of the access control model enforcement procedures. Therefore, a root-privileged shell can directly access sensitive data of other applications, and a malicious application can leak the data of other applications outside the device. To address this problem, the proposed technique allows only some specific processes to access to the data of other applications including private information by modifying the existing SEAndroid Linux Security Module (LSM) Hook function. Also, a new domain type of process is added to the target system to enforce stronger security rules. In addition, the proposed technique separates the directory type of a newly installed application and the directory type of previously installed applications. Experimental results show that the proposed technique can effectively protect the data of each application and incur performance overhead up to or less than 2 seconds.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.827-834
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• 2017

Android's inter-application access enriches its application ecosystem. However, it exposes security vulnerabilities where end-user data can be exploited by attackers. While existing techniques have focused on minimizing the risks of inter-application access, they either suffer from inaccurate risk detection or are primarily available to expert users. This paper introduces a novel technique that automatically analyzes potential risks between a set of applications, aids end-users to effectively assess the identified risks by crowdsourcing assessments, and generates an access control policy which prevents unsafe inter-application access at runtime. Our evaluation demonstrated that our technique identifies potential risks between real-world applications with perfect accuracy, supports a scalable analysis on a large number of applications, and successfully aids end-users' risk assessments.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.15C no.6
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• pp.493-506
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• 2008

In this paper we suggest dynamic access control model based on context satisfied with requirement of u-healthcare environment through researching the role based access control model. For the dynamic security domain management, we used a distributed object group framework and context information for dynamic access control used the constructed database. We defined decision rule by knowledge reduction in decision making table, and applied this rule in our model as a rough set theory. We showed the executed results of context based dynamic security service through u-healthcare application which is based on distributed object group framework. As a result, our dynamic access control model provides an appropriate security service according to security domain, more flexible access control in u-healthcare environment.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.1394-1401
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• 2007

Secure access control is a hot issue of large-scale organizations or information systems, because they have numerous users and information objects. In many cases, system developers should implement an access control module as a part of application. This way induces difficult modification of the module and repeated implementation for new applications. In this paper we implement a Java API library for access control to support system developers who use Java. They can easily build up access control module using our library. Our library supports typical access control models, and it can offer new types of access control. Furthermore, it is able to run multiple access control models at the same time.