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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2001
Michael Bradford Ault, Austin, TX (US);
Garry Lee Child, Austin, TX (US);
Larry George Fichtner, Austin, TX (US);
Dah-haur Lin, Austin, TX (US);
Michael Bradford Ault, Austin, TX (US);
Garry Lee Child, Austin, TX (US);
Larry George Fichtner, Austin, TX (US);
Dah-Haur Lin, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and data processing system, with which a unified security policy may be implemented using existing application components with disparate security mechanisms and user registries is disclosed. The present invention provides a generic application programming interface (API) that forms a framework for creating registry adapters. Registry adapters allow a policy director (an item of software for imposing a sitewide security policy) to operate with new or unfamiliar registry types by acting as a drop-in translator for converting generic registry-access commands into operations specific to the particular registry in question.