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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Candidate: Pranav Subramaniam</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Date: Monday, March 11, 2024</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Title: Intent-Based Access Control for Databases: Using LLMs to Intelligently Manage Access Control</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Abstract: In every enterprise database, administrators must define an access control policy that specifies which users have access to which assets. Access control straddles two
worlds: policy (organization-level principles that define who should have access) and process (database-level primitives that actually implement the policy). Assessing and enforcing process compliance with a policy is a manual and ad-hoc task. This paper introduces
a new paradigm for access control called Intent-Based Access Control for Databases (IBAC-DB). In IBAC-DB, access control policies are expressed more precisely using a novel format, the natural language access control matrix (NLACM). Database access control
primitives are synthesized automatically from these NLACMs. These primitives can be used to generate new DB configurations and/or evaluate existing ones. This paper presents a reference architecture for an IBAC-DB interface, an initial implementation for PostgreSQL
(which we call LLM4AC), and initial benchmarks that evaluate the accuracy and scope of such a system. We find that our chosen implementation, LLM4AC, vastly outperforms other baselines, achieving near-perfect F1 scores on our initial benchmarks.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Advisors: Sanjay Krishnan</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Committee Members: Michael Franklin, Sanjay Krishnan, and Grant Ho</span></div>
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