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David Alexander Blyth

Krishna Kumar Parthasarathy

Hao Zhang

Yongjun Xie

Wilbert De Graaf

Gregory Gourevitch

Anatoly Victor Koretsky

Mashuri R Libman

Lucy Chao

Liphi Gao

Rui Chen

Merwan Vishnu Hade

Samuel Lenz Banina

Alexandru Dan Burst

Michael Wilde

Kerem Yuceturk

Mark David Sisley

JiYe Gao

Lucy L Chao

Methods for externally-delegated access control and authorization of applications and resources are performed by systems and devices. A request for access by a user to a resource of a first application is received from a client device. A memory data structure that associates the resource of the first application with an application identifier and permission information is accessed to obtain the application identifier and the permission information. A query is provided to a second application, identified by the application identifier, which has a different authorization model than the first application. The query includes a user identifier and the permission information. The second application performs a permission check and authorization for the user based on the query. A query response that includes an access indication is the received from the second application. The request is granted or denied based on the access indication.

System and method for externally-delegated access control and authorization

A set of compliance policy updates are received. The compliance policy updates are sent to workloads for application. A status of the application of the compliance policies to the workloads is received from the workloads and output.

Communicating status regarding application of compliance policy updates

A notification is received at a workload that indicates that a compliance policy update is available for the workload at a compliance policy management system. A synchronization manager on the workload pulls the compliance policy update from the compliance policy management system and deploys it to the workload.

Synchronized distribution of compliance policy updates

A system is provided for applying optimized selection to route an email message over a network to a recipient mailbox. An email message may be enabled to be transmitted through a plurality of servers to a destination recipient mailbox server. An external message transfer agent may receive the email message using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and may transmit the received email message to a proxy transport server. The proxy transport server may apply a selection for an optimal store-and-forward (SAF) transport server to which to route the email message. The selection may provide for identifying available SAF transport servers, organizing the SAF transport servers into server groups, and selecting the optimal SAF transport server belonging to a server group where a recipient mailbox server is located. The proxy transport server may transmit the email message to the SAF transport server for delivering the message to the recipient mailbox.

Optimized routing for proxy use

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