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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2006
Mayilraj Kirshnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kollivakkam Raghavan, San Jose, CA (US);
Mayilraj Kirshnan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kollivakkam Raghavan, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network infrastructure element such as a packet data router or switch hosts an application program and one or more user program extensions to the application program. Logic in the network element is configured to perform creating and storing one or more default program security permissions; receiving a user-defined security policy that defines one or more user extension security permissions for the one or more user program extensions; creating and storing only each of the one or more user extension security permissions that do not conflict with the default program security permissions; receiving a request from one of the user program extensions to access a resource of the apparatus or the network; permitting the request to access the resource or the network only when the access does not violate the user extension security permissions and the default program security permissions.