SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION REQUIREMENTS IN WORKFLOWS

Ricardo Martinho, Dulce Domingos, António Rito-Silva

2006

Abstract

Workflow technology represents nowadays significant added value to organizations that use information systems to support their business processes. By their nature, workflows support the integration of different information systems. As organizations use workflows increasingly, workflows manipulate more valuable and sensitive data. Either by interoperability issues or by the value of data manipulated, a workflow may present several and distinct authentication requirements. Typically, information systems deal with their authentication requirements once, within their authentication process. This strategy cannot be easily applied to workflows since each workflow activity may present its own authentication requirements. In this paper we identify authentication requirements that workflows present and we propose to meet these requirements by incorporating authentication constraints into workflow authorization definitions. With this purpose, we extend a generic Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) model and we define an access control algorithm that supports and enforces authorization decisions constrained by authentication information.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Martinho R., Domingos D. and Rito-Silva A. (2006). SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION REQUIREMENTS IN WORKFLOWS . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 181-188. DOI: 10.5220/0002465701810188

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Ricardo Martinho and Dulce Domingos and António Rito-Silva},
title={SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION REQUIREMENTS IN WORKFLOWS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={181-188},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002465701810188},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION REQUIREMENTS IN WORKFLOWS
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Martinho R.
AU - Domingos D.
AU - Rito-Silva A.
PY - 2006
SP - 181
EP - 188
DO - 10.5220/0002465701810188