Identity query language systems and methods

A method for policy management comprising:

• defining a universal policy using a declarative syntax in a human-readable data serialization standard for a plurality of bespoke systems;
• validating the universal policy to ensure the universal policy is active and has not been tampered with using a checksum;
• translating the universal policy into a bespoke policy for each of a plurality of bespoke systems;
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• implementing each of the bespoke policies in each of the plurality of bespoke systems.

A method for policy management comprising:

• defining, at a primary policy management point (“PPMP”), a universal policy in a declarative syntax using a human-readable data serialization standard for each of a plurality of bespoke systems;
• receiving the universal policy from the PPMP at a plurality of policy gateways;
• authenticating the universal policy received from the PPMP at the plurality of policy gateways;
• validating the universal policy received from the PPMP at the plurality of policy gateways to ensure the universal policy is active and has not been tampered with using a checksum;
• translating, at each of the policy gateways, the universal policy received from the PPMP into a bespoke policy for at least one of the bespoke systems;
• implementing, at each of the policy gateways, at least one of said bespoke policies in at least one of the plurality of bespoke systems using an application programming interface (“API”) at least one of the bespoke systems.