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Approach to computer security
Network access control (NAC) is an approach to computer security that attempts to unify endpoint security technology, user or system authentication and network security enforcement. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Network access controlA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Lightweight and Robust Access Control Protocol for IoT-Based e-Healthcare NetworkInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Advanced Computing and Systems for SecurityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Semantic web-based social network access controlCited 85 times
- Go sideways: Network Admission ControlA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Cisco NAC ApplianceA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Semantic web-based social network access control
Network-Level Access Control Policy Analysis and Transformation
Robust access control framework for mobile cloud computing network
Compressing Network Access Control Lists
Distributed source control: a network access control for integrated broadband packet networks
A Network Access Control Framework for 6LoWPAN Networks
Usable Global Network Access Policy for Process Control Systems
Hopf bifurcation control of congestion control model in a wireless access network
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Lightweight and Robust Access Control Protocol for IoT-Based e-Healthcare Network
Permissioned blockchain network for proactive access control to electronic health records
Energy-Efficient Duty-Cycle Hybrid Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network
Enhancing Network Access Control using Multi-Modal Biometric Authentication Framework
SecShield: An IoT access control framework with edge caching using software defined network
📚 Books worth reading
Advanced Computing and Systems for SecurityRituparna Chaki, Agostino Cortesi · 2015
Network Security AssessmentChris McNab · 2004
Access Control, Security, and TrustShiu-Kai Chin, Susan Beth Older · 2009- 📕Attribute-Based Encryption and Access ControlDijiang Huang, Qiuxiang Dong · 2020
- 📕A revised model for role-based access controlW. A. Janson · 1998
Access control, authentication, and public key infrastructureBill Ballad · 2011
Access control systemsMessaoud Benantar · 2005- 📕A revised model for role-based access controlW. A Janson · 1998
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🔗 Related topics
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