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
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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
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