Nirvana Research:
Access Control Technologies
We develop access control (per document security) software with an emphasis on user interface for professional productivity. Applications include HIPAA compliance, sensitive collaboration in industry, etc. Ideal for reducing internal threats.
Today, our expertise is available for you.
We have implemented functional access control technology and have deployed it with medical and other businesses for ongoing use in their workflow with essential data.
While we do a lot of user interface (GUI and workflow), we nevertheless design or participate in designing underlying entities, databases, directories, enterprise architecture and applications, XML, document structures, business logic, enterprise beans, Java servlets, Apache modules, etc. as needed.
Beyond writing code:
Our access control research work has outpaced implementation. Some exciting features we don’t ship for actual use yet.
Some have called it “UI concepts”. If concepts indeed, they are among the most practicable one can find: They are influenced by experience from making products and implementations.
Our initial motivation: We wanted easy access control for documents. Whether a word processing document in Windows, in Mac OS, in Linux or an HTML document on a Web server: We wanted to quickly and with confidence set access control and to review effective access control settings.
We have gone far beyond that goal. Our extensive research has resulted in a specialized portfolio of technologies.
Most of our work in access control is applicable to
- documents,
- messages (to replace email),
- records (medical),
- recordings,
- images,
- etc.
First, displays from early versions. Since then there have been many advances, but these displays contain elements which are a good basis for discussion:
Too many items on the screen?
More recent work has a simpler appearance:
Given deadlines, designs can get unexciting yet be functional:
Arguably, Web UIs have taken over, now often with AJAX.
Terms which Leo Baschy has introduced in Nirvana Research's innovative work in access control include:
- user interface driven access control
- defined access control settings
- effective access control settings
- discontinuous hyperlink
- access-discontinuous hyperlink
- access-control-discontinuous hyperlink
- access dependent contents
- audience
- near future time chart of people