Enterprise Services

OPEN SOURCE ATTRIBUTE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (ABAC)

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Open Source ABAC is a combination of open source Policy Decision Point (PDP) and Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) to assist users in developing an ABAC solution applicable to all US DoD systems (Unclassified and Classified). These components are part of the Access Control Infrastructure and are provided as an interim solution. Activities are underway to offer a complete enterprise solution.

STANDARD FEATURES

  • The PDP applies relevant access control policies to a request and returns an access control decision
  • The PEP intercepts a resource access request; creates a corresponding request for the PDP; and enforces the PDP’s access control decision by either passing the original request to the resource or by sending an appropriate error code back to the requesting service