Patent ID: 8434128
Filing Date: 2013-04-30
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining, by at least one of a policy agent and a policy enforcement server in an enterprise network, that a selected stimulus has occurred, the stimulus being one or more of a passage of a selected time interval, an an occurrence of an event relevant to a degree of sensitivity of a selected communication, and/or content, to an enterprise corresponding to the enterprise network; in response to the determined stimulus, changing, by at least one of the policy agent and the policy enforcement server, a security requirement associated with the selected communication and/or content; determining, by the policy agent, that a nonsubscriber of the enterprise network is a member of a trusted group, the trusted group comprising, as members, at least one subscriber of the enterprise network and at least one nonsubscriber and each member of the trusted group being trusted by the enterprise; and in response to the nonsubscriber being a member of the trusted group, the policy agent at least one of (a) sending the selected communication and/or content and (b) providing the nonsubscriber access to the selected communication and/or content, wherein the trusted group is no longer recognized after at least one of (a) occurrence of a predetermined event adversely impacting a degree of trust between the enterprise and nonsub scriber and (b) passage of a determined period of time and wherein a security mechanism is at least one of deleted, disabled, and denied permission to execute in response to the at least one of (a) occurrence of a predetermined event and (b) passage of a determined period of time.