Introduction to XACML

What is XACML?

XACML "eXtensible Access Control Markup Language" is an open standard XML based languagelanguage. The thatstandard defines a declarative declarative fine-grained, attribute-based access control policy language, an architecture, and a processing model describing how to evaluate access requests according to the rules defined in policies. (*)

 XACML policy language: is used to describe general access control requirements

UsingXACML request/response protocol: used to query a decisioning engine that evaluates real-world access requests against existing XACML policies.

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 To know more about XACML, read XACML 2.0 Standard Specification

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(*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XACML