A Role-Based Access Control Model and Reference Implementation Within a Corporate Intranet

Published

February 1, 1999

Author(s)

David F. Ferraiolo, John Barkley, David R. Kuhn

Abstract

This paper describes NIST's enhanced RBAC model and our approach to designing and implementing RBAC features for networked Web servers. The RBAC model formalized in this paper is based on the properties that were first described in Ferraiolo and Kuhn [1992] and Ferraiolo et al. [1995], with adjustments resulting from experience gained by prototype implementations, market analysis, and observations made by Jansen [1988] and Hoffman [1996]. The implementation of RBAC for the web (RBAC/Web) provides an alternative to the conventional means of administering and enforcing authorization policy on a server-by-server basis. RBAC/Web provides administrators with a means of managing authorization data at the enterprise level, in a manner consistent with the current set of laws, regulations, and practices.

Citation

ACM Transactions on Information and System Security

Volume

2

Issue

1

Pub Type

Journals

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1145/300830.300834

Keywords

access control, authorization management, RBAC, Role-Based Access Control, World Wide Web, Web servers

Citation

Ferraiolo, D. , Barkley, J. and Kuhn, D. (1999), A Role-Based Access Control Model and Reference Implementation Within a Corporate Intranet, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, [online], https://doi.org/10.1145/300830.300834 (Accessed October 9, 2025)