Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Workshop on Attribute Based Access Control

Abstract

Controlling and managing access to sensitive data has been an ongoing challenge for decades. Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) represents the latest milestone in the evolution of logical access control methods. The goal of this inaugural Workshop on Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC '16), held in conjunction with the 6th ACM Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016), is to foster a community of researchers interested in all aspects of attribute based access control. ABAC is a fine-grained and a flexible form of access control. To realize its full potential, a number of major challenges need to be addressed including formal modeling and analysis of ABAC such as its safety and expressive power, administrative models for ABAC, attribute assurance, ABAC policy engineering and mining, privacy concerns in ABAC, etc. This inaugural ABAC '16 workshop features papers on various aspects of ABAC including formal models for ABAC and its relationship with XACML, data fusion concerns in attribute engineering, relevance of ABAC to application domains such as information sharing and online social networks, ABAC policy language for REST API, ABAC policy clustering, and trustworthiness of attributes. We hope the workshop attendees will find this wide variety of topics mto be insightful, and helpful in advancing the field of ABAC.