Delegating security policy management authority to managed accounts

Abstract

A system may delegate authority to manage aspects of a security policy developed by administrative personnel to standard users (e.g. non-administrative personnel) corresponding to managed accounts within an administrative hierarchy. An exemplary security policy may include application management settings that allow or deny individual applications with access to various enterprise resources. The system may expose one or more user interfaces to standard users of an enterprise network to enable these standard users to modify the security policy being deployed for their managed account and/or to at least temporarily exempt a particular application from the enterprise's security policy. For example, upon a standard user attempting to access enterprise data with a particular application that is not permitted such access, the system may enable this standard user to change the security policy as applied to her device or to simply exempt the particular application from the security policy.