Toward resolving access control policy conflict in inter-organizational workflows

The rapid growth of Internet and business globalization has lead organizations to collaborate in order to reach common goals through creating inter-organizational workflows. This collaboration poses new security challenges, particularly the cohabitation of different security policies of participating organizations in the workflow. In fact, organizations could have different or even conflicting policies. How to conciliate different local policies and create new coherent global policy free of conflict? How to resolve detected policy conflict? In this paper, we propose a new approach in order to respond to these two issues. This approach is based on the organization weight to resolve detected policy conflict in inter-organizational workflows. © 2015 IEEE.