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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2022
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marc E. Mosko, Kensington, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method are provided to facilitate securing windows discretionary access control. During operation, the system determines a Windows domain model including capability assignments of principals on resources, wherein a respective capability assignment comprises a permission of a respective principal to a respective resource and wherein a respective principal comprises a user or a group of users. The system specifies desired effective permissions of each principal to each resource. The system generates, based on the specified desired effective permissions, access control entries for the respective principal to the respective resource. The system generates, based on the specified desired effective permissions, group memberships indicating which users belong to which groups.