Patent ID: 8516546
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium for facilitating communication, comprising: at least one database containing policy data for a plurality of entities stored therein, including: computer code for receiving a message from the network device to access a component of a network; computer code for, in response to the receipt of the message, identifying the first policy data of the network device and the second policy data of the group; computer code for, in response to the receipt of the message, merging the first policy data of the network device and the second policy data of the group defined by the role of the one of the network device and the user of the network device to produce a combined policy; computer code for evaluating the combined policy with respect to the received message; computer code for determining whether the message is associated with a policy violation, based on the evaluation of the combined policy; computer code for rejecting the message when the determination is that the message is associated with the policy violation; and computer code for transmitting the message when the determination is that the message is not associated with the policy violation.