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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Mary Ellen Zurko, Groton, MA (US);
George R. Blakley, III, Williamson County, TX (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/101 (2013.01); G06F 21/00 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 2221/2101 (2013.01);
Abstract
These and other objectives are attained with a method and system for evaluating an access policy change. The method comprises the step of providing an access control mechanism having a first policy, and an audit log having entries of accesses made under that first policy. The method comprises the further steps of submitting a second policy to the access control mechanism, comparing the log entries to the second policy, and based on the results of the comparing step, taking one of a predetermined number of actions.