Authors: Snezana Sucurovic
Publish Date: 2009/04/08
Volume: 34, Issue: 4, Pages: 659-666
Abstract
OASIS is a nonforprofit consortium that drives the development convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society It involves more than 600 organizations and individuals as well as IT leaders Sun Microsoft IBM and Oracle One of its standards is XACML which appeared a few years ago and now there are about 150000 hits on Google XACML eXtensible Access Control Markup Language is not technology related Sun published in 2004 open source Sun XACML which is in compliance with XACML 10 specification and now works to make it comply with XACML 20 The heart of XACML are attributes values of defined type and name that is to be attached to a subject a resource an action and an environment in which a subject request action on resource In that way XACML is to replace Role Based Access Control which dominated for years The paper examines performances in CEN 13 606 and ISO 22 600 based healthcare system which uses XACML for access control
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