Guidance on how to get started on specific topics is given below (work in progress)

Topic: Tutorials

An elementary introduction to access control is provided in

The paper remains accurate as far as coverage of DAC (discretionary access control), MAC (mandatory access control) and RBAC (role-based access control goes, but is missing more recent developments such as attribute-based access control (ABAC) and usage control (UCON).  It is a good place to start.

A deep and complete treatment of MAC (mandatory access control) also called LBAC (lattice-based access control) is given in