Note to self: access control concepts

Just for indexing purposes.
Policies, models and mechanisms:

“Access Control: Policies, Models, and Mechanisms”
“Access Control Policies and Mechanisms”

Role Based Access Control

RBAC at NIST

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ReMIX09 – Lisbon: NET Services

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of participating in the “Cloud computing: the Azure Platform”  ReMIX09 session, where I presented the  .NET Services part.  My slides are available here.
Thanks to Luís Martins for the invitation, and also to everybody in the audience. If you have any question or observation about the presentation, please feel free [...]

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Cannot open the Outlook Window

Yesterday, after a successful update for Office Outlook 2007 (KB969907) sent via Windows Update, I started getting the following puzzling error when opening Outlook: “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook Window”.
This solution worked for me: outlook.exe /resetnavpane
Thanks, Matt and Dan.

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Introduction to Algorithms, third edition

Just received an email announcing the third edition of the excellent “Introduction to Algorithms”, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein, that will be published this year. It contains a new chapter on multi-thread algorithms, that is freely available in PDF format.
I’ve been using this book on my introductory Algorithms and Data Structures course and I’m [...]

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LINQ com C#

Congratulations to Luís Abreu and Paulo Morgado, for their new book “Linq com C#” (Portuguese for "Linq with C#”).

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Geneva’s Beta 2 Authorization

The beta 2 “Geneva” framework contains the concept of a claims authorization manager, represented by the ClaimsAuthorizationManager base class. This class contains a single method
public virtual bool CheckAccess(AuthorizationContext context)
that computes the authorization decision for the access represented by context. This object, of AuthorizationContext type, contains the following properties

Subject, of IClaimsPrincipal type, represents the subject [...]

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Geneva’s Beta 2 Claims Model

This week was released the beta 2 of the “Geneva” framework. This framework aims to provide an unified model for claims based identity management and access control. This includes a class model for representing claims-based identities, showed in the next diagram.
 

This class model, present in the Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll assembly, is similar to the one [...]

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2009 Lang.NET Symposium Videos

The videos of the 2009 Lang.Net Symposium sessions are already available.

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DevDays ARC209 demos

The demos of the ARC209 “Windows Azure – Introdução aos .NET Services” session (in Portuguese), which I co-presented with João Pedro Martins  at Lisbon’s DevDays 09, are available here.
By the way, the .NET Services account provisioning is now resumed.

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DevDays ARC209 slides

The slides of the ARC209 “Windows Azure – Introdução aos .NET Services” session (in Portuguese), which I co-presented with João Pedro Martins  at Lisbon’s DevDays 09, are available here.

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