DEVELOPING A CENTRAL AUTHENTICATION SYSTEM FOR ACCESS CONTROL WITHIN A NETWORK DOMAIN
ABSTRACT An important requirement of any information management system is to protect data and resources against unauthorized disclosure (secrecy) and unauthorized or improper modifications (integrity), while at the same time ensuring their availability to legitimate users (no denials-of-service). Enforcing protection therefore requires that every access to a system and its resources be controlled and that all and only authorized accesses can take place. This process goes under the name of acc...