Role Navigation Designer and Verifier for Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
In role-based access control systems, administrators face challenges in consistently assigning privileges to roles, leading to error conditions where users have privileges to perform tasks but not the necessary access to the corresponding resources, due to manual and navigation-path agnostic privilege assignment processes.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a role navigation design and verification method that uses a user interface-based model to assign permissions by navigating through higher-level navigation elements, allowing system administrators to grant permissions to roles by selecting relevant tasks and securable page elements, and verifying the navigability of these privileges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual privilege assignment is used in RBAC systems, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to error conditions where users have privileges but not access to corresponding resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary verification process that checks whether privilege assignments are consistent with the navigation path to resources. This mediator validates that users not only have the privilege to perform a task but also have the necessary access rights to reach the corresponding resource through the navigation path, thereby resolving the reliability issue without complicating the manual assignment process
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms that verify privilege assignments by checking navigation paths and resource accessibility. When a privilege is assigned, the system provides feedback to confirm whether the corresponding access rights and navigation paths are properly configured, allowing administrators to correct errors and ensure reliability while maintaining ease of operation
2Ease of operation
If navigation-path agnostic privilege assignment is used, then ease of operation is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates due to inconsistent privilege assignment
Solution Approach 1:
An intermediary verification mechanism is introduced that checks navigation paths associated with privileged tasks. This mediator ensures that privilege assignments are precise and consistent with the actual navigation requirements, preventing inconsistent assignments while maintaining the simplicity of manual configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary verification of navigation paths and resource accessibility before finalizing privilege assignments. By checking these conditions in advance, the system ensures precise and consistent privilege assignment without requiring complex manual configuration, thereby improving manufacturing precision while maintaining ease of operation
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provide for providing role navigation design and verification. An embodiment includes displaying user interface having at least one secured element, identifying a first privilege needed for access the secured element, and associating the privilege with a role, whereby a user having the role may access the at least one secured element.