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Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

May. 02, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Michael Factor, Haifa, IL;

Elliot K Kolodner, Haifa, IL;

Alexandra Shulman-Peleg, Givataim, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/101 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01); H04L 63/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, storage systems and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that include defining, for an entity, a policy access control list including one or more access rules, each of the access rules including one or more user conditions and one or more entity conditions. Upon receiving a request from a user to access a given entity, one or more user attributes associated with the user and one or more entity attributes associated with the given entity are identified. For each of the access rules, the one or more user conditions are applied to the one or more user attributes, the one or more entity conditions are applied to the one or more entity attributes. Access to the given content entity is granted to the user upon determining that a minimum threshold of the one or more user conditions and the one or more entity conditions are met.


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