Patent ID: 8898728

Claim:
A method for propagating security information to a plurality of nodes in a cluster, the method comprising: receiving the security information at a first node of the plurality of nodes in the cluster, the security information comprising one or more sets of security policies and other information used by each node of the cluster to control of access to resources of the cluster and wherein the security information is received in response to a change in the security information; storing the security information locally in the first node; storing by the first node the security information including the one or more sets of security policies as an object on a distributed object cache of the cluster by writing the security information to an Application Program Interface (API), the API comprising a map abstraction of nodes of the distributed object cache; distributing the object storing the security information including the one or more sets of security policies from the distributed object cache to at least one second node of the plurality of nodes in the cluster; and updating locally stored security information including one or more sets of security policies on the at least one second node of the plurality of nodes with the security information from the distributed object cache.