Towards Access Control for Isolated Applications

Kirill Belyaev, Indrakshi Ray

2016

Abstract

With the advancements in contemporary multi-core CPU architectures, it is now possible for a server operating system (OS), such as Linux, to handle a large number of concurrent application services on a single server instance. Individual application components of such services may run in different isolated runtime environments, such as chrooted jails or application containers, and may need access to system resources and the ability to collaborate and coordinate with each other in a regulated and secure manner. We propose an access control framework for policy formulation, management, and enforcement that allows access to OS resources and also permits controlled collaboration and coordination for service components running in disjoint containerized environments under a single Linux OS server instance. The framework consists of two models and the policy formulation is based on the concept of policy classes for ease of administration and enforcement. The policy classes are managed and enforced through a Linux Policy Machine (LPM) that acts as the centralized reference monitor and provides a uniform interface for accessing system resources and requesting application data and control objects. We present the details of our framework and also discuss the preliminary implementation to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Belyaev K. and Ray I. (2016). Towards Access Control for Isolated Applications . In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-196-0, pages 171-182. DOI: 10.5220/0005970001710182

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt16,
author={Kirill Belyaev and Indrakshi Ray},
title={Towards Access Control for Isolated Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={171-182},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005970001710182},
isbn={978-989-758-196-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016)
TI - Towards Access Control for Isolated Applications
SN - 978-989-758-196-0
AU - Belyaev K.
AU - Ray I.
PY - 2016
SP - 171
EP - 182
DO - 10.5220/0005970001710182