Access Road 0.7
About Access Road


About the Access Road software

The Access Road software is an universal simulator of access controls, to improve the design and audit of IT security. Access Road offers the out-of-the-box simulations of GNU/Linux Ubuntu® and MySQL Server®, and also a generic Role-Based-Access-Control application. As a professional software, it is both for IT people and application administrators.

Access control simulation is a new ground technology, like there are ground notes in music. The focus is on IT weak configurations and people authorizations. Access Road simulates and explains, combining complete modeling, visual results and detailed texts, to promote new ways of working in security:

  • to simulate access controls, roles and authorizations in IT systems,

  • to check their compliance with the security policy,

  • to explain and to communicate the results,

  • to learn the access control functions, patterns and best practices.

Access Road is a free, libre and open source software, licensed under the GNU AGPL (Affero General Public License version 3). All the source code and all the algorithms into Access Road are original. The simulation of a given software by Access Road is based only on the public description and the use of this software, without copy of the source code or algorithms of the simulated software. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, including warranty about the rights simulation.

Some complementary modules would be available in a commercial version, but Access Road delivers right now an efficient service. This is a program based on Java/Swing, running on any desktop with a 17' screen or more. The owner and the publisher of Access Road is the company ACCBEE, 35bis, Rue des Renoullières, 93220 Saint-Denis, FRANCE, EU.

The author of Access Road may be contacted at:



About the Access Road documentation

Access Road documentation contains the items listed hereafter:

  • this getting started documentation, named 'Tutorials', which covers all the generic functions of Access Road as a general platform,

  • the documentation of each ACS addon, like for Linux Ubuntu®, which is accessible through the Access Road main menu 'Help'/'ACS Addon Guides',

  • the extended Javadoc documentation of the code for the general platform, including some first ACS add-on documentation,

  • the Javadoc documentation of the code for any other ACS add-on.

The Access Road documentation is published under a FDL license. with the Invariant Section being 'Introduction to Access Road'.

To download the latest version of the Access Road software, its user documentation, the Java source codes and the Javadoc documentation, let's go to the Sourceforge site.

®All trademarks are property of their respective holders. Copyright ACCBEE – 22 February 2012





Introduction to Access Road

One-hour tutorial for learning access controls

Two-hours tutorial for designing access controls

One-hour tutorial for verifying access controls

Why Access Road is unique

Glossary