About
the Access Road
software
The Access Road
software is a universal simulator of access controls that is
intended to improve design and auditing of IT security.
As a professional
software, Access Road is designed for database, system and
application administrators, IT architects, software developers and
auditors.
Access control simulation
is a new ground technology, like
there are ground notes in music. The focus is on IT weak
configurations, executing environments for malware analysis, 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). 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.
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. The full
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 Sourceforge.
About the Access
Road
documentation
The
documentation is the followings:
the 2 files 'README.txt' for
the executable and the sources describe how to install Access
Road or an ACS addon, what are the last changes, the fixed bugs
and the backward compatibility issues, and how to provide the
administration tasks,
the 24-pages Access Road
glossary explains about 90 main concepts and terms of the GUI, as
a quick help for both newbiees and advanced users,
this 3 getting started
documentation, named 'Tutorials', which covers the 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 Access Road code, including an overview of
the design (about 60 printable pages) and some first ACS addon
documentation,
the Javadoc documentation of
any other ACS addon.
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 – 25 Juanuary 2013
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Introduction
to Access Road
One-hour
tutorial for learning access controls
Two-hours
tutorial for designing access controls
Three-hours
tutorial for verifying access controls
Why
Access Road is unique
Glossary
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