The use of allomorphism for the access control service in OSI management environment
Alexandre Moraes Ramos, Elizabeth Sueli Specialski · 1997
This paper proposes the use of Allomorphism for the access control service in OSI management environment, with no Access Control Function implementation (ISO10164-9, 1990), which is responsible for this service. The Allomorphism is a powerful SMI resource that makes the OSI Model very strong and flexible. This strategy reduces the overhead introduced by the access control function on OSI management systems without expose the management to arbitrary use of its resources. The Allomorphism allows to define different access views to the management resources according to security requirements. In this context, this work presents the security requirements in networks management systems, the OSI Access Control Function Model and its disadvantages, the idea of Allomorphism and, finally, how to implement it to access control.