Access Road 0.7
About Access Road


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





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