IPBAC: Interaction Provenance-Based Access Control for Secure and Privacy-Aware Systems

2026-01-09

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference

AI Summary

Traditional access control models, such as Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), struggle to meet complex security requirements due to rigid role definitions, insufficient fine-grained accountability, and limited adaptability. This work proposes the Interaction-Provenance-Based Access Control (IPBAC) model, which uniquely integrates deep interaction provenance into the access control mechanism. By capturing contextual metadata—such as subjects, timestamps, and operational contexts—from entity interactions, IPBAC enables dynamic policy adjustment and strong traceability. This approach overcomes the limitations of static policies, significantly enhancing defenses against unauthorized access and providing verifiable, fine-grained audit trails that support regulatory compliance and forensic analysis.

Technology Category

• Data Mining & Knowledge Management: Representing, Reasoning, and Using Provenance, Trust
• Cognitive Modeling & Cognitive Systems: Social Cognition And Interaction
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Action, Change, and Causality

Application Category

• Security and Privacy: Authentication, authorization, and access control
• User Modeling, Personalization and Recommendation: Attacks and countermeasures in recommendation systems
• Semantics and Knowledge: Provenance, trust, security and privacy, and ethical issues in managing semantic data

Abstract

Interaction provenance refers to the documentation of every action and interaction within a system, including detailed metadata such as the actor’s identity, the time the action occurred, and the surrounding context of the interaction [1] . This concept is important for understanding the history and origins of data and processes, providing a transparent and traceable record of all activities within a system specially privacy-aware systems.

Problem

• access control
• role-based access control
• provenance
• traceability
• accountability

Innovation

• Interaction Provenance
• Access Control
• Traceability
• Adaptive Security
• Audit Compliance