Abstract. Access control is key to limiting the actions of users in an application and attribute-based policy languages such as XACML allow to express a wide range of access rules. As these policy languages become more widely used, policies grow both in size and complexity. Modularity and reuse are key to specifying and managing such policies effectively. Ideally, complex or domain-specific policy patterns are defined once and afterwards instantiated by security experts in their application-specific policies. However, current policy languages such as XACML provide only limited features for modularity and reuse. To address this issue, we introduce policy templates as part of a novel attribute-based policy language called STAPL. Policy templates are policies containing unbound variables that can be specified when instantiating the template in another policy later on. STAPL supports four types of policy templates with increasing complexity and expressiveness. This paper illustrates how these policy templates can be used to define reusable policy patterns and validates that policy templates are an effective means to simplify the specification of large and complex attribute-based policies.
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