Emerging Trends in ICT Security: Chapter 30. Leveraging Semantic Web Technologies for Access Control (Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing)

Access control comprises a central concept in ICT security, leveraged for the protection of various resources, including systems, networks, applications, services, corporate assets, and information. It has also emerged as an important mechanism for the protection of personal data, resulting in a family of models referred to as privacy-aware access control. Due to the increasing complexity of the ICT ecosystem, various approaches have been proposed with the aim to provide expressive access control models and, in this context, Semantic Web technologies have also been leveraged. This chapter investigates the application of Semantic Web technologies in access control, highlighting the main trends in the area and outlining the most characteristic approaches.