XACML Facts
This document provides facts related to XACML for usage in the written part of my diploma thesis.
General
- XML Access Control Markup Language
- designed to standardized express access control rules in XML format [Sh03]
What is XACML?
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Web Service Security [On02]
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Although the two technologies are not explicitly linked,
XACML may be used in conjunction with SAML. An authorization decision expressed
in a SAML assertion may have been based on rules expressed in XACML.
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Pros
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Secure Web services [Sh03]
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- lower costs because there is no need to develop an application-specific access control language or write the access control policy in multiple languages
- system administrators need to understand only one language
- with XACML, it is also possible to compose access control policies from the ones created by different parties
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