2007 CSI/FBI report (Highly RECOMMENDED)
Recommended Readings used in the past
Michael A. Harrison, Walter L. Ruzzo and Jeffrey D. Ullman, "Protection in Operating Systems", Communications of the ACM, Vol 19, No 8, August 1976. (pdf)
[For THEORY on ACCESS CONTROL MATRIX]
David F. Ferraiolo, Ravi Sandhu, Serban Gavrila, D. Richard Kuhn, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, "Proposed NIST Standard for Role-based Access Control," ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security, Vol. 4, Issue 3, August 2001 (pdf).
[Provides details on RBAC model to be covered before the midterm]
S. Osborn, R. Sandhu, Q. Munawer, “Configuring Role-Based Access Control to Enforce Mandatory and Discretionary Access Control Policies”, ACM Transaction on Information and System Security, May 2000. (PDF)
[Related to RBAC coverage - shows how RBAC can be configured for other policies]