Patent ID: 7954135

Claim:
A method, comprising: acquiring access control rights for a first stage of a first processing environment, wherein the first stage is one of a plurality of other stages associated with a lifecycle of a project; and dynamically and in real time enforcing the access control rights against requesting resources that access the first processing environment in response to identities associated with the requesting resources and policies associated with the identities that map to portions of the access control rights, each access control right tied to one or more attributes of first resources in the first processing environment and each access control right tied to one or more of the policies, the access-control rights are specific to the first stage and the attributes to which the access-control rights are tied and the access control rights are customized based on the identities, and wherein the access control rights are additional security limitations layered on top of and in addition to existing security limitations for the first processing environment, the policies supersede the existing security limitations permitting the access control rights to override the existing security limitations, the policies tied to the identities for the requesting resources.