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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1998
Michael Jon Dockter, Ft. Myers, FL (US);
Joel Frank Farber, San Jose, CA (US);
Ronald William Lynn, Gilroy, CA (US);
Randal James Richardt, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The security evaluation method of the invention utilizes multiple levels of security evaluation before certain user's can gain access to system resources. Upon receiving a user access request, the method acquires qualification data regarding the access request and determines a security level that is applicable to a selected system resource which is indicated by the user access request. Thereafter, the method performs at least one of a plurality of security tests to determine if the qualification data matches the security level applicable to the selected system resource. At least some of the plurality of security tests are arranged to be performed in an order of speed of execution, with a fastest executable security evaluation test being performed first and a slowest executable security test being performed last. A more slowly executable security test is performed with respect to the user access request only if all faster executable security tests return “don't know”, or equivalent, responses. The method enables the speed of execution ordering to be overridden if a further system constraint will enable another ordering to maximize system performance.