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Abstract

Given the growing complexity of information systems and the difficult task of security policy enforcement, system administrators need simple and powerful security management tools. This article presents the second version of MotOrBAC, a tool that embeds policy specification and administration in a same model. MotOrBAC is able to simulate and analyze a security policy specified using the OrBAC model. It also implements the AdOrBAC model which is used to administrate OrBAC. This article presents why the OrBAC model has been chosen to implement such tool. We also present the OrBAC application programming interface used by the new version of MotOrBAC and how it can be integrated into other applications to enforce an OrBAC policy.