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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. 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 URL

Get

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 theythe 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

     

     

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