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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

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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 RESOURCES ACTIONS ENVIRONMENTS
   

Get

Put

  

    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
       

    Get

    Put

    		  

    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 RESOURCES ACTIONS ENVIRONMENTS

    IP Address

    		 soffid  object

    Get

    Put

    Current Time

    Current Date

    Current DateTime

    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 RESOURCES ACTIONS ENVIRONMENTS

     

    token

    method

    soffid object

    Get

    Put

     

    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

     

    Access level

    Account

    System

    Login

    Vault Folder 

    Server URL

    Get

    Put

    Current Time

    Current Date

    Current DateTime

     

     

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