Beyond Trust White Paper Sample

Because of RBAC’s obvious value in the IT security administration world, RBAC models, in some fashion or form, have been implemented by the Sun, HP, and Linux communities in various forms. Yet it has been shown that each of these implementations each have an assortment of limitations in meeting an organization’s needs.

PowerBroker provides a way to implement role-based access control that provides the needed solution for the limitations found in operating system RBAC implementations.

PowerBroker’s approach enriches the security features of current RBAC implementations, while delivering important advantages in flexibility, separation of duties, audit trails, and strong, best-practices security.