Dr. Khaled Khan and Dr. Armstrong Nhlabatsi from the College of Engineering at Qatar University (QU) have recently obtained a US Patent (No. 10,713,355) for their invention of adaptive security. This research project was funded by the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).
The research team led by Dr. Khaled Khan, an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Dr. Armstrong Nhlabatsi from KINDI Computing Research Centre at QU in collaboration with The Open University (UK) invented a method for enabling security designers of the cloud application to make security mechanisms dynamic well as adaptive. The invention incorporates contextual attributes, which are considered in addition to access control rules when making an access control decision by the system.
