Chapter 7

Mobile Cloud Security: Attribute-Based Access Control

At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.

Jodi Rell

Abstract

The scalability of secure access control is extremely challenging for edge cloud connected to millions of IoT and mobile devices. Traditional data access control approaches such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) require establishing a trusted group for access/credential management beforehand, which is not scalable for supporting a large number of data providers and consumers. Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) provides a scalable approach to make the access control focus on data access policies instead of managing access entities. Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) approaches provide ...

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