Policy-Based Access Control

Full Title or Meme

Policy-Based Access Control or PBAC is any system where Access is mediated by Access Tokens that are evaluated by a digital policy language and policy control engine.

Context

• The most common Attribute-Based Access Control language XACML expanded their scope in version 3.0 to include the description Policy-Based Access Control although policy statement was defined in earlier versions.

Existing Languages

XACML

• XACML 3.0 core spec.
• This spec is written in XML with no regard of size of the message. It can easily be converted to json and this a a spec that describe the process.
• While it is oriented to an overly complex structure using monolithic designs, it has well-thought out elements that should remain useful.

Drools

(which is open)

Solution