PoliSeer: A Tool for Managing Complex Security Policies
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چکیده
Few tools exist for decomposing complex security policies into simpler modules. The policy-engineering tools that do exist either encapsulate entire policies as atomic, indecomposable modules or allow fine-grained modularization but are complicated and lack policyvisualization capabilities. This paper briefly presents PoliSeer, the first tool we are aware of that allows complex policies to be specified, visualized, modified, and enforced as compositions of simpler policy modules.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JIP
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011