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 > Configure Soffid > Security settings > XACML PEP configuration

• Web Policy Enforcement Point
• Role centric Policy Enforcement Point
• Dynamic role Policy Enforcement Point
• External Policy Enforcement Point ( https://iam-sync-lab.soffidnetlab:1760//XACML/pep )
• Password vault Policy Enforcement Point ( https://iam-sync-lab.soffidnetlab:1760//XACML/vault )

Screen

Custom attributes

Custom 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.

Subjects

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Resources

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Actions

• queryPassword
• queryPasswordBypassPolicy: it is used when 
• setPassword
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Environments

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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

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.

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

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Resources

Actions

Environments

 

• soffid object
• method

Actions

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Environments

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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.

Subjects

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Resources

• token
• method
• resource: soffid object

Actions

• GET
• POST

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Attributes

token

method

resource

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

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Resources

• tokenAccess level
• accountAccount
• systemSystem
• folderLogin
• Vault Folder 
• Server URL

Actions

method:

• GET
• POST

Environments

•  Current Time
• Current Date
• Current DateTime