Patent ID: 8800050

Claim:
One or more computer readable storage media having encoded thereon instructions for causing at least one processor to perform a method for accessing a pre-release computing resource associated with a privilege set, the method comprising: provisioning a user computer system for membership in the privilege set, the privilege set including a set of user computer systems and the pre-release computing resource and the privilege set having a security risk level indicating an operational layer of the user computer system which the pre-release computing resource changes, by sending one or more unique identifiers of the user computer system in a request for the pre-release computing resource to the remote authorization computer system, responsive to satisfying membership criteria for the privilege set, receiving and storing locally a privilege set identifier from the remote authorization system; requesting from the remote authorization system and storing on the user computer system the pre-release computing resource; verifying the user computer system has membership in the privilege set required for the resource based upon the privilege set identifier and a resource privilege set identifier for the resource, by receiving a request to execute the pre-release computing resource, retrieving the resource privilege set identifier from the locally stored pre-release computing resource, and determining whether the locally stored privilege set identifier matches the locally stored resource privilege set identifier; and responsive to the locally stored privilege set identifier matching the resource privilege set identifier, executing the pre-release computing resource.