Chapter 23

Policy-driven System Management

Henrik Plate,    SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, 805 Avenue Dr M. Donat, 06250 Mougins, France

Cataldo Basile,    Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy

Stefano Paraboschi,    Universitá degli studi di Bergamo, via Salvecchio 19, 24129 Bergamo, Italy

1 Introduction

This chapter begins with a high-level view of security management and the development of security concepts, followed by an introduction of core concepts and terms relevant for PBM in particular, the layering of policies with different abstraction levels in a so-called policy hierarchy. Sections 3 and 4 explain high-level security objectives and principles, policies, and technologies relevant for the various policy ...

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