XACML is a common description language for access control policies.First TakeXACML provides a necessary component for complex, interactive Web services, enterprise-wide security management and DRM.

Sun Microsystems on Tuesday announced the release of an open-source implementation of XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) 1.0, billed as a standard mechanism for setting access ...

XACML frameworks provide the necessary structure to articulate complex access rules, support policy-based computing and ensure that policy decision points (PDPs) evaluate requests with rigour.

Noting that it was complementary to Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) from OASIS, Schmelzer said XACML would make it easier for end users to work with Web services applications. Operating ...

The XACML demo shows how well this extremely flexible language for expressing access control policies is used in large-scale environments where resources are distributed and policy administration ...

XACML v3.0 Policy Enforcement Points for Microsoft IIS and Apache will be provided as well as a Java and DotNet WSDL document library.

XACML standards workers are attempting to remedy this issue by creating REST and JSON profiles for the access rules standard, Gebel says. These new profiles will be approved by mid-2014. “Developers ...

• XACML is intended to be primarily a machine-generated language. XACML creators expect that easy-to-use tools for writing and managing XACML policies will be developed, since they can be used ...

The standard is said to provide a universal language to develop and enforce authorization policy over the Internet. The OASIS XACML spec was developed by Entrust, IBM, OpenNetwork, Quadrasis, Sterling ...