The Story of Access Control

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This is the story of access control - From MAC and DAC to ABAC, RBAC & ReBAC. from its rigid beginnings to its modern, context-aware future.
To understand how we arrived at this moment—the midnight alerts, the misconfigured roles—we need to rewind the clock and look at how access control began. Long before we had microservices, SaaS apps, or cloud-native platforms, software ran on massive centralized mainframes. Terminals were just input/output devices connected to a single system.

⌛ Chapters:
00:00 Prologue
00:57 Chapter 1 - The Origins
02:33 Chapter 2 - The Personal Computer Boom
03:47 Chapter 3 - The Turning Point
04:23 Chapter 4 - MAC AND DAC
05:52 Chapter 5 - RBAC
07:44 Chapter 6 - ABAC
09:00 Chapter 7 - ReBAC
10:12 Chapter 8 - ReBAC with Permi