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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Daniel Jay Thomsen, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Richard O'brien, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Jessica Bogle, White Bear Lake, MN (US);
Charles Payne, Oakdale, MN (US);
Daniel Jay Thomsen, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Richard O'Brien, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Jessica Bogle, White Bear Lake, MN (US);
Charles Payne, Oakdale, MN (US);
McAfee, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for defining and enforcing a security policy. Security mechanism application specific information for each security mechanism is encapsulated as a key and exported to a semantic layer. Keys are combined to form key chains within the semantic layer. The key chains are in turn encapsulated as keys and passed to another semantic layer. A security policy is defined by forming key chains from keys and associating users with the key chains. The security policy is translated and exported to the security mechanisms. The security policy is then enforced via the security mechanisms.