Ab Initio Technology LLC

Christopher J Winters

Joel M Gould

Anthony M Yeracaris

A method includes automatically determining a component of a security label for each first record in a first table of a database having multiple tables, including: identifying a second record related to the first record according to a foreign key relationship; identifying a component of the security label for the second record; and assigning a value for the component of the security label for the first record based on the identified component of the security label for the second record. The method includes storing the determined security label in the record.

Database security

Maintaining data in a data management system including at least one processor and a storage system includes accessing a first data source providing one or more source elements of data; accessing a storage system storing one or more subsets of data, each subset including at least one element of data, and storing one or more descriptors identifying a data source for a subset and identifying a data source for each of one or more elements of the subset; and processing rules that determine if, according to the descriptors, an element in the storage system is allowed to be changed.

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Lexington, MA, United States of America

Christopher J Winters