Microsoft announced the "general availability" of its Roles Based Access Control (RBAC) Azure service this week. The service lets organizations set up access privileges to Azure resources based on ...

Microsoft this week has made its Roles Based Access Control (RBAC) Azure service generally available. The service lets organizations set up access privileges to Azure resources based on the use of ...

Roles are, obviously, at the heart of role-based access control. But it’s important to keep in mind that the definition of roles is an administrative and conceptual exercise, not a technical one.

Managing role-based access controls is part of an identity and access management system. Whether that’s homegrown on campus or a commercial product, IAM tools bring user identities, authentication, ...

Traditionally, organizations relied on role-based access control (RBAC) to secure access to resources. An account would have a designated role, and that role would have permission to access resources.

The approach is called role-based access control (RBAC). According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) document, the first formal RBAC modelwas proposed in 1992.

Title: Role-Based Access Control Authors: David F. Ferraiolo, D. Richard Kuhn and Ramaswamy Chandramouli Publisher: Artech House ISBN: 1580533701 The authors of Role-Based Access Control are the ...