With more flexibility and scalability in its database views, VDS 5.3 now makes directory data more easily available for mission-critical services and applications that only consume SQL.

XACML: An XML-based standard language for specifying and implementing access control policies. PDP (Policy Decision Point): A component within access control systems that evaluates access requests ...

XACML has been around for a long time and has no competing standards, Gebel says. It’s hit the early adopters and it about the take off in the mass market. “If you look across the markets – government ...

XACML frameworks provide the necessary structure to articulate complex access rules, support policy-based computing and ensure that policy decision points (PDPs) evaluate requests with rigour.