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• Policy (Dictionary Entry)

• Policy Analysis (Dictionary Entry)

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Policy mining [132, 133, 32, 30]. The main goal in this field is to design policy miners, algorithms taking as input a log containing previously decided requests. From these logs, policy miners compute (i.e., mine) policies that evaluate requests in a way that is consistent with the observed decisions in the log. Policy mining has various applications. It can be used for refactoring policies that have become convoluted after organizational changes and migrating policies to new policy languages. We give an overview of use cases for policy mining in Chapter 2. In particular, policy mining can be used to prevent privilege abuse. We will see in Chapter 4 that a mined policy can be compared with the currently implemented policy to identify permissions that are currently assigned to but rarely exercised by users.

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