Defining and maintaining compliant access for a large organization can be a daunting task. Some types of applications and use cases are better suited to a more structured role-based approach, whereas others require real-time contextual decisions. EmpowerID delivers a comprehensive solution for managing authorization policies by seamlessly integrating the strengths of RBAC, ABAC, and PBAC are three ways of managing authorization policies. Moreover, while both have overlapping qualities, individually, each one cannot cover all the necessary aspects of access control. However, for optimal, dynamic support of an IT organization’s needs, EmpowerID supports RBAC relational modeling. RBAC relational modeling provides the backbone or structure for defining an organization and its overall policies while leveraging the flexibility and real-time contextual nature of ABAC and PBAC to offer the best comprehensive solution.
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Figure 1: EmpowerID’s Innovative Hybrid RBAC/ABAC/PBAC Model
EmpowerID’s sophisticated role and relationship modeling allow . This approach ensures that organizations can effectively and dynamically manage access control across various applications and use cases, providing a secure and compliant environment.
By employing RBAC relational modeling, EmpowerID establishes a structured framework for defining an organization's hierarchy, roles, and policies. This framework allows security architects to model the organization and its structure and policies, including segregation of duties policies, to prevent undesired combinations of access. As illustrated in Figure 1 above, flexible attribute-based ABAC or PBAC policies support the centralized real-time decision point for applications that can call
Simultaneously, EmpowerID takes advantage of the flexibility and real-time contextual nature of ABAC and PBAC to support centralized decision-making for applications that interact with the EmpowerID API for authorization decisions. The ABAC/PBAC engine enhances or modifies the powerful RBAC engine's decisions, allowing their use only when greater flexibility or contextual information works hand-in-hand with the robust RBAC engine to enhance or modify its decisions when necessary, considering factors such as risk, location, and MFA type is required. By including the .
Incorporating pre-calculated access results that the engine derives derived from complex RBAC policies that , which account for inheritance and even attribute-based queries, bolsters the potency of ABAC/PBAC policies. This hybrid approach ensures that organizations can effectively manage access control across a wide range of applications and use cases.
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In summary, EmpowerID unites the best aspects of RBAC, ABAC, and PBAC policies are made much more potent. Insert excerpt
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What is Role to offer a comprehensive and efficient solution for managing authorization policies. This method provides the necessary structure, flexibility, and real-time contextual decision-making required to meet the ever-evolving needs of contemporary IT organizations.
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