Migrating to role-based access control

This project seeks to provide a single, GUI based security management interface for an existing, highly complex information systems environment. Among the identified requirements and goals for this project are, the use of Commercial Off-the-Shelf software, and the implementation of a foundation for an RBAC based approach to security management. This paper presents an overview of the RBAC salient issues that have been surfaced by initial efforts. This paper also highlights some of challenges faced in migration from an existing environment that has been developed over time and is largely segmented in both user communities and support groups to a centralized RBAC environment.