What is Prohori?
Prohori is an policy-based authorization and intrusion detection system. The main functional area of Prohori is to control access to locations such as rooms.
What does Prohori mean?
Prohori is a Bengali language word which means Guard.
What does it really do?
Prohori allows the following functionalities in an intelligent building:
- Allows room owners to set up policies about access
- Allows delegation of access rights
- Allows detection of intrusion and other irregular behavior
- Enables people to specify who can locate them
Versions
Prohori was initially developed as a class project for the CS 463 Security course in Fall 2005, at UIUC. We are working now to enhance its functionalities and test it in the real-life test bed at Siebel Center. The latest version is 0.2.
People
- Ragib Hasan, maintainer, design
- Mehedi Bakht (now inactive)