Research on access control of SaaS platform
Yangpeng Zhu, Jing Zhang · Computer Engineering and Applications Journal · 2011
Software as a service is a new software deliver model which provides software services for customers and reduc-es hardware purchase and system management cost.As tenant's data being kept in service provider,how to protect the tenant data while keeping high resource use rate is a challenge problem.To deal with the problem about complex tenant role and meet the request of all tenants'data saving together and accessing separately,a supporting multi tenants,multi roles and easy access control SaaS model based on RBAC is proposed.Comparing with traditional RBAC,the conception of tenants is added in this model,which develops platform access control based on tenants and enhances the security and management for SaaS platform.This paper analyzes the process of user accessing to the SaaS platform and provides formal language description for this model,realizes a SaaS hotel management platform access control's database physical model and provides suggestion for SaaS platform development.