diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6a93a7e..1ba2bbc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ # GenericBreakGlass: XACML Reference Implementation Today’s IT systems implement fine-grained access control mechanisms to protect a companies assets and to fulfill regulations such as -Basel III, SoX or HIPAA. In general, access control cannot fully +Basel III, SoX, or HIPAA. In general, access control cannot fully capture all requirements. In particular, for exceptional situations it is hard to formulate access control policies taking all possible legitimate accesses into account. Exceptional Access Control is an approach for allowing users to override access control decisions in, e.g., emergency situations. Different approaches and techniques have been presented how to allow the user to override access control -restrictions in a controlled way, e. g., **Break (the) Glass**, -Overriding Access Control, or related approaches such as Optimistic -Security. +restrictions in a controlled way, e. g., **Break (the) Glass**. Break +Glass Access Control allows users to override access control decision +in a controlled manner. This project contains an XACML PDP/PEP infrastructure supporting _Break Glass Access Control_.