Patent ID: 8949951
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a first application instance of an application executed by a processor, a first set of user authentication credentials; identifying, using a directory interface, a network location of a directory; listing, by the directory interface, a first security delegate in view of a network location of the first application instance of the application and in view of the network location of the directory; selecting, by the first application instance of the application, the first security delegate; receiving, by the first security delegate, the first user authentication credentials from the first application instance of the application; and determining, by the first security delegate, whether the first user authentication credentials are valid in view of a first security level defined for a first network of the first security delegate; wherein the first security level defined for the first network of the first security delegate is different than a second security level defined for a second network of a second security delegate that determines validity of second user authentication credentials received from a second application instance of the application.