Authorizing and directing configuration updates in contemporary IT infrastructures

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-82

  Vanbrabant, Bart ^a   Delaet, Thomas ^a   Joosen, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

access control; authorisation; federation; systems management

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; AUTHORISATION; CENTRAL CONFIGURATIONS; CONFIGURATION MODEL; FEDERATION; IT INFRASTRUCTURES; LOW LEVEL; POSITION PAPERS; SECURITY EQUIPMENTS; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS; SYSTEM MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT; WORK-FLOWS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 78650152329     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1866898.1866912     Document Type: Conference Paper

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