SECURE EXTRANET ACCESS TO COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITIES IN A COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT
First Claim
1. A method for secure extranet access to collaborative activities in a collaborative environment, the method comprising:
- adding an extranet collaborator to a collaborative space within a collaborative environment;
establishing authentication credentials for the extranet collaborator; and
, responsive to detecting a change to the collaborative space, protecting the change with the credentials and securely messaging the change to the extranet collaborator.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to securing extranet access to a collaborative environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for secure extranet access to collaborative activities in a collaborative environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for secure extranet access to collaborative activities in a collaborative environment can be provided. The method can include adding an extranet collaborator to a collaborative space within a collaborative environment and establishing encryption credentials for the extranet collaborator. Thereafter, in response to detecting a change to the collaborative space, the change can be encrypted with the credentials and the change can be messaged to the extranet collaborator. Notably, a contribution to the activity can be received from the extranet collaborator. Once received, the contribution can be decrypted with the credentials and the contribution can be posted to the activity.
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1. A method for secure extranet access to collaborative activities in a collaborative environment, the method comprising:
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adding an extranet collaborator to a collaborative space within a collaborative environment; establishing authentication credentials for the extranet collaborator; and
, responsive to detecting a change to the collaborative space, protecting the change with the credentials and securely messaging the change to the extranet collaborator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A collaborative computing data processing system comprising:
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a collaborative environment configured for coupling both to a plurality of internal collaborators over an internal computer communications network, and also to a plurality of extranet collaborators over an external computer communications network; a credentials store for the extranet collaborators; a messaging service coupled to the collaborative environment; and
, secure extranet access logic coupled to the collaborative environment, the logic comprising program code enabled to establishing authentication credentials for the extranet collaborators and, in response to detecting a change to a collaborative space in the collaborative environment, to protect the change with associated credentials in the credentials store and to message the change to the extranet collaborator through the messaging service. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for secure extranet access to collaborative activities in a collaborative environment, the computer program product comprising:
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computer usable program code for adding an extranet collaborator to a collaborative space within a collaborative environment; computer usable program code for establishing encryption credentials for the extranet collaborator; and
,computer usable program code for encrypting the change with the credentials and messaging the change to the extranet collaborator in response to detecting a change to the collaborative space. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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