Protection of Resources Using Role Based Access Control with Multilevel Authentication
V. Nirmalrani, P. Sakthivel · International Review on Computers and Software (IRECOS) · 2014
This Nowadays web becomes a common platform to share the resources among a very large group of people. Protecting the resources from malicious users and their actions is a great challenge. Many authentication methods were proposed earlier for protecting the web resources. The existing methods for ensuring authentication are text based passwords, image based authentication, one time password. These methods are the most common and widely used methods by many of the real time web applications to verify the authentication of the users. Some common issues in the traditional methods are more time consuming, multilevel authentication for all stored resources irrespective of sensitiveness. Also, these methods are not performing well to meet the challenges. Hence this paper proposes a new method to access the web resources using multilevel authentication and access control policies. The multilevel authentication for the resources has been fixed based on the level of sensitivity. It facilitates the users to access the resources by consuming short time for authentication process.The proposed system assigns a level of sensitivity for the resources; the sensitivity is proportional to the number of levels which should be crossed by the end user to access the resources. This model has been implemented in a university database and its performance has been tested by the contrasting methods to study its effectiveness.