Patent ID: 7665125

Claim:
A method of distributing security policy information from a server to a mobile computing device, the method comprising: authenticating a connection between the server and a gatekeeper; transmitting from the server to an LDAP directory a request for data about a user of the mobile computing device; receiving data at the server from the LDAP directory, the data comprising security policy data related to the user; generating a policy package at the server to govern the user's operation of the mobile computing device, wherein the policy package is based on the security policy data related to the user; sending the policy package from the server to the gatekeeper; initiating data synchronization between the mobile computing device and the gatekeeper; verifying the mobile computing device as being associated with an organization and as being authorized to synchronize with the gatekeeper device; and sending the policy package from the gatekeeper to the mobile computing device; whereby the policy package can be decrypted at the mobile computing device using a policy encryption private key associated with the user; and whereby a user on the mobile computing device can be authenticated as an authorized member.