Patent ID: 8380630

Claim:
A method for security mediation, comprising: receiving an information request for information stored within a plurality of external databases (“POEDs”) from a user, wherein the information request is received by an automated security mediator (“ASM”) which is neither an owner nor custodian of the requested information; authenticating the user; querying an automated centralized index (“ACI”), maintained by the ASM to locate the requested information within the POEDs, wherein the ACI includes a location and a set of access rules for each entry; applying the access rules associated with the located requested information (“LRI”); automatically communicating from the ASM to each of the POEDs storing the LRI: a query corresponding to the information request, and information sufficient to apply a set of native access rules of the respective POEDs storing the LRI to further control access to the LRI; receiving at least a status response from at least one of the POEDs storing the LRI indicating whether the LRI is accessible or inaccessible; automatically indexing the accessible and inaccessible LRI; and at least one of: retrieving, by the ASM, the accessible LRI from the POEDs storing the LRI and communicating, from the ASM to the user a consolidation of the retrieved accessible LRI; and communicating, from the ASM to the user a consolidated index of the accessible LRI.