Patent ID: 8087066

Claim:
A commercial grid network comprising: a plurality of computing resources; a security label repository configured to store a plurality of unmapped security labels; an administrative node comprising a processor and memory, wherein the memory comprises software instructions, which when executed by the processor, perform a method, the method comprising: receiving a lease request from a client to lease a computing resource selected from the plurality of computing resources, mapping a unique identifier of the client to a security label selected from the plurality of unmapped security labels to obtain a client-label mapping based on the lease request, mapping a unique identifier of the computing resource to the security label to obtain a resource-label mapping based on the lease request, and storing the client-label mapping and the resource-label mapping in the security label repository to obtain stored security label mappings; and a forwarding node configured to authenticate an access request from the client to the computing resource using the stored security label mappings.