XpressRules LLC — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase II: N/A

Description

New Generation Access Control (NGAC)—because of its “neutrality by design”—represents the most effective and scalable approach for deploying “smart” access control and consent solutions in large dynamic scenarios. NGAC however presents with its own problems: (1) it has miniscule recognition and uptake in the workplace, (2) it is unusable by non-technical policy officers and (3) its documentation and wider “infosphere” are very early-stage. XpressRules-PM is a natural language-based NGAC toolkit for (1) equipping non-technical stakeholders—in their own words—to deploy privacy and consent policies, (2) enabling an organization to configure the product to fit their environment instantly, repeatedly and without IT assistance, (3) exposing its policy store to logicchecking and analytics, and (4) applying NGAC’s Decision Algorithm to perform real-time “dispute resolution” in an IoT information blockchain. For healthcare XpressRules-PM facilitates a “longitudinal patient consent™” to accompany a longitudinal patient health record through its migration. NGAC retains the rich semantics of relationships between entities. The NGAC “family of standards” expresses this semantics abstractly with a directed acyclic graph (DAG). Therefore the most appropriate implementation of NGAC is graph-based, running on a NoSQL platform. Phase II specifies Neo4j initially, but its design will support any NoSQL database product.