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Secure Your Node.js Web Application
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Secure Your Node.js Web Application

by Karl Duuna
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
5h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Access Control Methods

The access control system’s job is to figure out if a user should be allowed to run some function or see some data. There are different ways of distributing and then checking those rights; in this section we will discuss three of the most widely used methods in computer systems: mandatory/discretionary access control (MAC/DAC), identity-based access control (IBAC), and role-based access control (RBAC).

MAC and DAC are both focused on the data objects instead of the users. Upon authorization the user is assigned to a group, and the access decisions are based on the settings of the data object in question. The DAC model allows the owner of the data object to determine the access-level requirements at the owner’s discretion—hence ...

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