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Access
control design is a cognitively challenging task. Designers or
administrators may manually enter access controls. For the large
systems, they often prefer to use administrative or IAM tools.
They save time, but we think it is not enough for the most
sensible systems. A
primary difficulty is decision-making rather than data-entry or
saving time. A design failure may cost much more than
it is acceptable. If a tool improves the decision-making
capabilities and the dialogs among the persons of interest, it
would result in better designs, while it may save time too!
Being
an universal simulator of logical access controls is the
challenge for Access Road. Just
like high-end audio handling the sound reproduction to recreate
the concert, simulation becomes an high-end technology when it
help to recreate in the human mind the overall design of the IT
system. Because the models of access control are so complex and
varied, this target is now far to be achieved by Access Road 0.7.
However, it is right now a solid ground, providing an efficient,
reliable and extensible software:
Access
Road is a powerful tool for understanding in one look the
complex access controls
over
numerous software, avoiding the fragmentation of the points of
view the multiplicity of software produces, and more precisely,
managing a new fragmentation of the points of view which adapts
itself better to the human thought.
As
a simulator, Access Road provides the immediate modeling of
varied software, including the structure, the components, the
behavior and the rights of each software. Thus, this model
allows to deduce the effective rights of any right user on any
modeled access target.
The
user interface provides the ability to follow the user in all
his thoughts and queries about access controls, and whatever his
level of expertise. The user chooses the functional or technical
objects to see in the Access Road views. He may easily jump or
study the detailed results.
The
user may then performs multi-dimension analysis and prediction.
Comparing two or three concurrent designs for the access
controls becomes easy. Evaluating the impact of a new software
on the access paths of the current system is quite
straightforward. Anticipating the impact of a failure in a given
software is greatly facilitated, since it is easy to see the
rights of this software on all the resources of its running
environment.
As
a framework for simulators, Access Road is able to explain what
it simulates and why it finds each result, providing an
universal vocabulary of terms, textual forms and diagrams to
understand and compare all the access control functions, and
then all the access control states.
As
a framework for simulators, Access Road has some unique
capacities to simulate a new software, to integrate it into the
GUI and to simulate the exchanges with the other simulations.
Access
Road is a free software which is supported by a business project
to sell extensions on the top of the platform. The design is
very consistent, well documented and ready to powerful
evolutions.
With Access Road, a
new user may use in four hours a built-in simulation like
for the MySQL Server. In two days, he will be able to
understand and operate on the design of an administrator. In a
week, he would simulate one of his favorite software, if it
is possible to derive it smoothly from a current simulation.
For
a software developer, the learning curve is also gradual. In a
week, he may copy a simulation to provide a new one with
Access Road. In one month, the add-on framework will allow
him to design, code, test and document a simple simulation with
specific features. In six months, a single developer may
produce a complex simulation like for the MySQL server.
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ACCBEE – 03 March 2012
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