# Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) ## Description The **PEP, Policy enforcement point**, is a component of policy-based management, **where enforce the policies**. It is the component that serves as the gatekeeper to access a digital resource. The PEP gives the PDP, Policy Decision Point, the job of deciding whether or not to authorize the user based on the description of the user's attributes. ## XACML PEP configuration Soffid allows you to configure different policies enforcement points, each of then can use a different policy set. `Main Menu > Administration > Configuration > Security settings > XACML PEP configuration` - [Web Policy Enforcement Point](#bkmrk-web-policy-enforceme-1) - [Role centric Policy Enforcement Point](#bkmrk-role-centric-policy-) - [Dynamic role Policy Enforcement Point](#bkmrk-dynamic-role-policy-) - [External Policy Enforcement Point](#bkmrk-external-policy-enfo) - [Password vault Policy Enforcement Point](#bkmrk-password-vault-polic) ## Screen [![image-1628231580976.png](https://bookstack.soffid.com/uploads/images/gallery/2021-08/scaled-1680-/image-1628231580976.png)](https://bookstack.soffid.com/uploads/images/gallery/2021-08/image-1628231580976.png) ## Common attributes Common attributes for each PEP: - **Enable XACML Policy Enforcement Point**: select the Yes option to enable the PEP. - **Policy Set Id**: policy set identifier. - **Policy Set Version**: version of the policy set to enforce. - **Trace requests**: select the Yes option to enable the trace. ## Policies enforcement points ### Web Policy Enforcement Point The policy will be enforced when the user open a new Soffid page. Using this PEP you can define the rules to access to Soffid pages.
**SUBJECTS****RESOURCES****ACTIONS****ENVIRONMENTS**
User User attributes Account System Role Group Primary Gorup IP Address Server URLGet Put Post Current Time Current Date Current DateTime
### Role centric Policy Enforcement Point The policy will be enforced when the user login into Soffid. It will calculate the user authorizations as of the permissions that the user has assigned.
**SUBJECTS****RESOURCES****ACTIONS****ENVIRONMENTS**
User User attributes Account System Role Group Primary Gorup IP Address Soffid object Attributes create update delete query Current Time Current Date Current DateTime
### Dynamic role Policy Enforcement Point The policy will be enforced when the user performs an action to evaluate if the user has or not authorization. The user must have the proper role and comply with the XACML rule. You can use that PEP to split the permissions, for instance, a support group can update the permission of a specific group of user, and another support group can update the permissions of another group of users.
**SUBJECTS****RESOURCES****ACTIONS****ENVIRONMENTS**
User User attributes Account System Role Group Primary Gorup IP Address Soffid object Attributes (\*) create update delete query Current Time Current Date Current DateTime
(\*) It is allowed to use "Attribute Selector" to configure Dynamic role policy. ### External Policy Enforcement Point (https://iam-sync-lab.soffidnetlab:1760//XACML/pep) PEP of general purpose. Calling the web service, the clients can made validations and figure out if the users have access.
**SUBJECTS****RESOURCES****ACTIONS****ENVIRONMENTS**
User User attributes Account System Role Group Primary Gorup IP Address Token Method Soffid object Get Put Current Time Current Date Current DateTime
### Password vault Policy Enforcement Point (https://iam-sync-lab.soffidnetlab:1760//XACML/vault) The policy will be enforced when the password vault is used.
**SUBJECTS****RESOURCES****ACTIONS****ENVIRONMENTS**
User User attributes Account System Role Group Primary Gorup IP Address Access level Account System Login Vault Folder Server URL setPassword queryPassword queryPasswordBypassPolicy launch Current Time Current Date Current DateTime