Patent ID: 8626794

Claim:
A method of providing access to secure documents in an enterprise system comprising: crawling a secure data source; generating, by a processor, indexing information about a plurality of secure documents stored in the enterprise system; wherein the indexing information for each secure document of the plurality of secure documents includes a generic URL to said each secure document; receiving a query for searching the secure data source; in response to the query, using, by a processor, the indexing information to identify a set of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents satisfies the query and is associated with one or more security attributes; for each document of the set of documents: accessing, by a processor, an identity management system to obtain a security attribute value for each of the one or more security attributes associated with said each document; and responding to the query by providing a link to said each document, wherein the link is generated based at least on the generic URL to said each document and the security attribute value obtained from the identity management system for each of the one or more security attributes associated with said each document.