APPARATUS FOR ACCESS CONTROL AND POLICY ENFORCEMENT FOR DISTRIBUTED NETWORKED SERVICES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for controlling cross-organisational access to distributed networked services. SOLUTION: This apparatus for controlling the access comprises at least one requesting organization (RO) having access to services via a resource server. The OR is adapted to issue authentication data to one or more end users or registration of one or more end users upon request and electronically transmitting the authentication data to the respective end users. The apparatus further comprises at least one servicing organization (SO) communicating with the resource server and defining the credentials required for access to a service via the resource server by end users associated with each of the organizations. A clearance service (CC) is provided in which is stored one or more mappings to the registered credentials. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO