Access Control Systems: Security, Identity Management and Trust Models

Access control is a method of allowing and disallowing certain operations on a computer or network system. This book details access control mechanisms that are emerging with the latest Internet programming technologies. It provides a thorough introduction to the foundations of programming systems security as well as the theory behind access control models. The author explores all models employed and describes how they work. This work can be used by security software developers as a technical reference, as well as a resource for setting scopes of implementations with respect to the formal models of access control systems.