Storage Agnostic Large Scale Permissions And Access Analytics

A file storage system comprising:

• one or more processing units;
• memory storing data and code, said code including a set of predefined instructions that, when executed by said processing unit(s) cause said file storage system to perform corresponding actions;
• and
• a communication interface;
• and wherein
• a first subset of said set of predefined instructions causes said file storage system to establish a first connection with a first remote file storage system via said communication interface;
• a second subset of said set of predefined instructions causes said file storage system to acquire from said first remote file storage system a first set of file system permissions having a first set of permission semantics, said first set of file system permissions controlling access to at least one data object stored on said first remote file storage system by a first user associated with said first remote file storage system;
• a third subset of said set of predefined instructions causes said file storage system to establishing a second connection with a second remote file storage system via said communication interface;
• a fourth subset of said set of predefined instructions causes said file storage system to acquiring from said second remote file storage system a second set of file system permissions having a second set of permission semantics different from said first set of permission semantics, said second set of file system permissions controlling access to at least one data object stored on said second remote file storage system by a second user associated with said second remote file storage system;
• a fifth subset of said set of predefined instructions causes said file storage system to convert said first set of file system permissions and said second set of file system permissions to a unified set of file system permissions having unified permission semantics different from said first set of permission semantics and said second set of permission semantics;
• and
• a sixth subset of said set of predefined instructions causes said file storage system to store said unified set of file system permissions in said memory.