Patent ID: 8201228

Claim:
A method of securing a telecom network, the operation of the telecom network controlled using a plurality of telecom network commands, comprising: grouping at least some of the plurality of telecom network commands into a plurality of different task sets with each task set comprising one or more telecom network commands, the telecom network commands in a particular task set being associated with a role or a portion of a role of at least one user of a plurality of users; grouping at least some of the plurality of task sets into a plurality of different task groups with each task group comprising a plurality of task sets, wherein at least one of the task sets is grouped into a plurality of different task groups; grouping at least some of the plurality of users into a plurality of different user groups; associating each user group to at least one of the task groups based on the role of the users in the user group, wherein at least one user group is associated with a plurality of different task groups and wherein at least one task group is associated with a plurality of different user groups; and allowing at least one user of the plurality of users access to at least one telecom network command of the plurality of telecom network commands based on the association of each user group to at least one of the task sets or task groups.