Method and apparatus for creating custom access control hierarchies

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9124602-B2
Application number	US-62021907-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 5, 2007
Priority date	Jan 5, 2007
Publication date	Sep 1, 2015
Grant date	Sep 1, 2015

Abstract

The Custom Access Controller adds a custom security hierarchy to the organizational data in the View Processor of WEBSPHERE Virtual Member Manager. Whenever an entity or application attempts to access a resources the access control engine starts the View Processor to identify the organizational data and assigned security policy for the resource. The assigned security policy is applied to a delegated administration path which is part of the delegated administration hierarchy but includes the appropriate path and security policy for the resource. The delegated administration path is sent to an access control engine that grants or denies access to the resource. A View Processor Interface allows network administrators to create and modify custom security hierarchies.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer implemented process, responsive to an entity attempting to access a resource in a data repository, initiates a view processor component of IBM's WEBSPHERE Virtual Member Manager, wherein the view processor performs steps comprising:
retrieving a delegated administration path describing a location of a resource in a custom organizational hierarchy;
identifying a security policy for the resource;
identifying a security policy for an entity attem…

Assignees

• Kuehr-Mclaren David G
• Mireku Kwabena
• Sampathkumar Govindaraj
• Wong Janette S
• IBM

Inventors

• Kuehr-Mclaren David G
• Mireku Kwabena
• Sampathkumar Govindaraj
• Wong Janette S

Classifications

• G06F21/6236

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/6218

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L63/105 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic