VISUALLY REPRESENTING AND MANAGING ACCESS CONTROL OF RESOURCES

摘要

An approach is provided for controlling access to a resource. Visual representations of the resource and an entity are included in a display. In the display, a movement of the entity visual representation to a position proximate to a boundary of the resource visual representation is detected. Based on an attribute assigned to the entity visual representation being determined to satisfy an access control requirement assigned to the resource visual representation, the entity is permitted to access the resource. In the display, based on the entity being permitted to access the resource, a movement of the entity visual representation across the boundary of the resource visual representation and a placement of the entity visual representation within the boundary of the resource visual representation are permitted.

主权项

1. A method of controlling access to an information technology (IT) resource, the method comprising the steps of:
a computer initiating a display including a visual representation of the IT resource and a visual representation of an entity; the computer detecting in the display a movement of the visual representation of the entity from outside a boundary of the visual representation of the IT resource to a position close to the boundary of the visual representation of the IT resource; responsive to the step of detecting the movement to the position close to the boundary, the computer determining a first attribute assigned to the visual representation of the entity satisfies an access control requirement assigned to the visual representation of the IT resource; based on the first attribute assigned to the visual representation of the entity satisfying the access control requirement assigned to the visual representation of the IT resource, the computer determining the entity is permitted to access the IT resource; and based on the entity being permitted to access the IT resource, the computer permitting in the display a movement of the visual representation of the entity across the boundary of the visual representation of the IT resource and permitting in the display a placement of the visual representation of the entity within the boundary of the visual representation of the IT resource.