Break-Glass: Handling Exceptional Situations in Access Control

By Helmut Petritsch

Helmut Petritsch describes the first holistic approach to Break-Glass which covers the whole life-cycle: from access control modeling (pre-access), to logging the security-relevant system state during Break-Glass accesses (at-access), and the automated analysis of Break-Glass accesses (post-access). Break-Glass allows users to override security restrictions in exceptional situations. While several Break-Glass models specific to given access control models have already been discussed in research (e.g., extending RBAC with Break-Glass), the author introduces a generic Break-Glass model. The presented model is generic both in the sense that it allows to model existing Break-Glass approaches and that it is independent of the underlying access control model.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658073640
• ISBN13: 9783658073640
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Springer Vieweg
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"