Resource-centric Dynamic Access Control in Cloud

Abstract

More and more people prefer to obtain information from cloud. Different users tend to access different resources they interested at anytime across different networks by a variety of equipments. As same as the traditional management of file, the lifecycle theory is still suitable the electronic data in cloud computing. Firstly, we analyze the motivation of access control in cloud, and summarize the security requirements for the data management in the whole lifecycle. Second, we propose a resource-centric dynamic adaptive access control model (RCDA), which is extended from the action-based access control (ABAC). RCDA is able to describe other access control models through the way of customization. Furthermore, we give the scheme for implementation of RCDA. Finally, we make the comparisons between the RCDA and other existing models, and the results indicate that RCDA is able to satisfy the security requirements for the whole lifecycle of data by adaptively adjusting the access control policies.