Cyberspace-Oriented Access Control: Model and Policies

With the rapid development of information technologies, our daily life has become deeply dependent on cyberspace. The new technologies provide more facilities and enhancements to the existing Internet services as it allows users more flexibility in terms of exploring webpages, sending messages or publishing tweets via cell phones or laptops. However, there are many security issues such as security policy definition and security policy enforcement of current cyberspace. In this paper, we study information access problems in cyberspace where users leverage devices via the Internet to access sensitive objects with temporal and spatial limitations. We propose a Cyberspaceoriented Access Control model (CoAC) to ensure the security of the mentioned accesses in cyberspace. The proposed model consists of seven atomic operations, such as Read, Write, Store, Execute, Publish, Forward and Select, which can simulate most operations in cyberspace by the combination of several atomic operations. For each atomic operation, we assemble a suite of security policies and demonstrate its flexibility. By that, a series of security policies are denfined for CoAC.