Today, code might look like this: The code snippet above shows how developers might implement fine-grained authorization today. It is extremely specific and it binds the application directly to the authorization logic. What happens if the authorization rules change? What if there is another rule
The XACML policy language uses three structural elements: policy sets, policies, and rules. A policy set can contain any number of policies and policy sets. Policies, in turn, can contain multiple rules. Rules define the desired effect, either of Permit or Deny. If a policy contains multiple
Axiomatics Policy Server 5.x PDP API The Axiomatics Policy Server exposes its Java Policy Decision Point as a JAX-WS conformant SOAP web service. In addition, the server also provides a managed PDP object which developers can use to expose the PDP as a new service. To grab the managed PDP, do
The scenario we will use is that of a car dealership company. In the company, purchase orders are deemed as sensitive resources and hence they need to be protected. The policies we will write will revolve around purchase orders. Let’s define some vocabulary. A purchase order has an identifier,
XACML Policy Enforcement Points A policy enforcement point (PEP) in the XACML architecture is responsible for: intercepting a business request (e.g. a user web request to a backend servlet) creating an authorization request using any number of attributes available from the business request and
The second part to the presentation focus on an introduction to Attribute-based access control or ABAC. ABAC can be seen as the next step after Role-based access control (RBAC) in the evolution of authorization. ABAC extends the capabilities of RBAC to focus not only on user attributes (identity,