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Efficient Graph Based Approach to Large Scale Role Engineering

Dana Zhang(a),(*), Kotagiri Ramamohanarao(a), Rui Zhang(a), Steven Versteeg(b)

Transactions on Data Privacy 7:1 (2014) 1 - 26

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(a) The University of Melbourne, Australia.

(b) CA Inc. Melbourne, Australia.

e-mail:danaz @acm.org; rao @csse.unimelb.edu.au; rui @csse.unimelb.edu.au; steve.versteeg @ca.com


Abstract

Role engineering is the process of defining a set of roles that offer administrative benefit for Role Based Access Control (RBAC), which ensures data privacy. It is a business critical task that is required by enterprises wishing to migrate to RBAC. However, existing methods of role generation have not analysed what constitutes a beneficial role and as a result, often produce inadequate solutions in a time consuming manner. To address the urgent issue of identifying high quality RBAC structures in real enterprise environments, we present a cost based analysis of the problem for both flat and hierarchical RBAC structures. Specifically we propose two cost models to evaluate the administration cost of roles and provide a k-partite graph approach to role engineering. Existing role cost evaulations are approximations that overestimate the benefit of a role. Our method and cost models can provide exact role cost and show when existing role cost evaluations can be used as a lower bound to improve efficiency without effecting quality of results. In the first work to address role engineering using large scale real data sets, we propose RoleAnnealing, a fast solution space search algorithm with incremental computation and guided search space heuristics. Our experimental results on both real and synthetic data sets demonstrate that high quality RBAC configurations that maintain data privacy are identified efficiently by RoleAnnealing. Comparison with an existing approach shows RoleAnnealing is significantly faster and produces RBAC configurations with lower cost.

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