Data Protection and Security

V

Access Control

V.III

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Role Hierarchies:

To reflect an organization's line of authority and responsibility, hierarchies are a natural structuring method. In the following example, programmer inherits all the permissions of project member but not the debugger and the senior role of project leader might have permissions besides the ones inherited by debugger and programmer

Figure V.III-I

An organization's line of authority . [click to enlarge]