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Locally adaptable central security management in a heterogeneous network environment

  • US 7,308,702 B1
  • Filed: 01/14/2000
  • Issued: 12/11/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In a system having a computer and one or more security mechanisms, a computer-implemented method of defining and enforcing a security policy, the method comprising:

  • encapsulating security mechanism application specific information for each security mechanism, wherein encapsulating includes forming a key for each security mechanism using an application layer;

    combining keys to form key chains;

    encapsulating key chains as keys and passing the key chain keys to another semantic layer;

    defining the security policy, wherein defining includes forming key chains from keys and associating users with key chains;

    importing a key from the semantic layer to a local policy layer;

    executing, within a computer, translation software, wherein the translation software translates the security policy and exports the translated security policy to the security mechanisms; and

    enforcing the security policy via the security mechanisms.

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