Homework 3 (100 Points)

Write an article of about 5-7 (11 point, New times roman, single spacing) pages based on the papers 1 and 2. The third paper is not required but recommended for reading. You are free to choose the style of your writing - you may summarize the essential issues addressed in the two papers; be a critic of the papers highlighting/comparing the strengths and weaknesses; build on the ideas discussed there; or do a mix of these. You may write a separate critique for the two papers, if you prefer.

  1. A. Kern, A. Schaad, J. Moffet. An Administration Concept for the Enterprise Role-Based Access Control Model (click here)

  2. E. Damiani, S Vimercati, P. Samarati. Managing Multiple and Dependable Identities (click here)
  3. (Recommended reading) Peng Liu, Amit Chetal. Trust-Based Secure Information Sharing Between Federal Government Agencies (click here)

Optional reading: 

  1. NIST's study on the economic impact of RBAC (click)
  2. CRA Grand Challenges in Information Security (click)

Note: The page estimates indicated are based on 11 point size font, New times roman, and single spacing.

Homework is due on Wednesday, February 16.