Utilizing Policy Enforcement System to Control Mobile Distributed Applications

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2017-09-20
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https://technology2.a-sit.at/en/publications/utilizing-policy-enforcement-system-to-control-mobile-distributed-applications/

XACML is the de-facto standard in the area of data security policy languages. It enables to centralize the evaluation and administration of access control rules. This project extends XACML to enable centralized controlling of distributed mobile application. Without applying optimizations, applications render unusable due to heavy losses in performance.

Furthermore, this concept does not require a static Internet connectivity of the mobile devices and also works with occasional connectivity to the policy evaluation infrastructure.