Authorization and Access Control Questions

Covers authorization models and access control design and testing across applications and systems. Topics include role based access control role hierarchies attribute based access control policy driven authorization and access control lists for resources. Includes common authorization failures such as broken access control privilege escalation insecure direct object references and improper enforcement of authorization checks. Also covers testing methodologies for authorization including threat modeling access control test cases code and integration testing approaches and mitigation strategies such as principle of least privilege separation of duties and defense in depth.