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What is Attribute-Based Access Control?

By many, including Gartner and NIST, ABAC is now being considered as the dominant mechanism for the future.  As part of a consortium tasked with creating a reference architecture for ABAC, NextLabs was selected by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to help define the core capabilities and benefits of ABAC.

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XACML stands for “eXtensible Access Control Markup Language”. It is an XML-based markup language designed specifically for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). The standard defines a declarative fine-grained, attribute-based access control policy language, an architecture, and a processing model describing how to evaluate access requests according to the rules defined in policies.

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Dynamic authorization is the core technology behind the NextLabs platform, in which authorization and access rights to an organization’s network, applications, data, and other sensitive assets are granted dynamically in real-time via attribute-based access control (ABAC) policies. A dynamic authorization system with ABAC significantly streamlines the management process, removing the need to individually administer hundreds of thousands of access-control lists and role assignments on a daily basis.

Attribute-based access control (ABAC) has emerged as the next-gen technology for secure access to business-critical data. The complexities of today’s IT landscape – think cloud apps, data silos, mobile, IoT, Big Data – has exposed the limitations of role-based access control (RBAC) solutions, leaving organizations vulnerable on the data security front. By many, including Gartner and NIST, ABAC is now being considered as the dominant mechanism for the future.

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