Phil Windley

APRIL 18, 2023

Policy-based Access Control (PBAC) systems, on the other hand, were built for this kind of permissioning. As I wrote in Not all PBAC is ABAC , your app design and how you choose to express policies make a big difference in the number of policies you need to write. Tags: identity access+control oauth abac

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Phil Windley

APRIL 4, 2023

Photo Credit: Information Desk Charleston Airport from AutoRentals.com ( CC BY 2.0 , photo is cropped from original) Tags: identity abac access+management pbac pip Notes The information in this article was inspired by Should the Policy Enforcement Point Send All Attributes Needed to Evaluate a Request?

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Phil Windley

MARCH 15, 2023

Summary: Exploring the architectural patterns we can use with policy-based access control (PBAC) illustrates the difference between policy-based and attribute-based access control (ABAC). Sometimes this is lost in the myth that policy-based access management (PBAC) is all the same. Notes The material that follows is not in the book.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 1, 2021

Bravo is using a policy-based access control (PBAC) system that relies on knowing attributes about Alice. The PBAC system uses the attributes in the proof presentation to authorize Alice's access. The PBAC system uses the attributes in the proof presentation to authorize Alice's access.

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