An extended XACML model to ensure secure information access for web services

More and more software systems based on web services have been developed. Web service development techniques are thus becoming crucial. To ensure secure information access, access control should be taken into consideration when developing web services. This paper proposes an extended XACML model named EXACML to ensure secure information access for web services. It is based on the technique of information flow control. Primary features offered by the model are: (1) both the information of requesters and that of web services are protected, (2) the access control of web services is more precise than just "allow or reject" policy in existing models, and (3) the model will deny non-secure information access during the execution of a web service even when a requester is allowed to invoke the web service. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.