Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Jean-Laurent Huynh

Diane Baek

Suresh Ganesh Pai

Pascal Joly

Olivier Berger

Joe Reves

A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for facilitating application sharing. In operation, a user selects at least one of a plurality of applications operating on a first computer to share with at least a second computer. The user then selects at least one of a plurality of security measures for preventing a user operating the second computer from performing at least one of a plurality of unauthorized operations. Next, the user initiates applications sharing on the first computer, wherein the user operating the second computer may access or observe an application running on the first computer, but may not perform any unauthorized operations on the first computer.

Application sharing security

A method and corresponding tool are described for security policy management in a network comprising a plurality of hosts and at least one configurable policy enforcement point. The method, comprises creating one or more policy templates representing classes of usage control models within the network that are enforceable by configuration of the policy enforcement points; creating one or more policy instances, each based on one of the templates and instantiating the template for identified sets of hosts within the network to which the usage control model is to be applied, deploying the policy instances by generating and providing one or more configuration files for provisioning corresponding policy enforcement points within the network. Access to the templates and policy instances is controlled so that the policy templates are only modifiable by a first predeterminable user group, the policy instances are only modifiable by the first or a second predeterminable user group and the policy instances are only deployable by a third predeterminable user group.

Method and apparatus for role-based security policy management

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Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Jean-Laurent Huynh