US 6,189,104 B1 · Integrated network security access control system

Abstract

A network resource security services control system comprises an integrated arrangement of security services, that are operative to control the ability of an information storage and retrieval network user to have access to and communicate with one or more information resources within the network. The security access control mechanism monitors activity associated with a user's attempt to and actual conducting of data communications with respect to a system resource, and controllably modifies one or more security relationships of a security association that has been established among the users and resources of the system, in dependence upon one or more characteristics of the monitored activity, in such a manner that affects the ability of the system user to conduct data communications with respect to a system resource.

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Dependent claims

A method of controlling access by a network user to one or more resources of an information network comprising the steps of:

(a) establishing a plurality of security relationships among users and resources of said information network;
(b) selectively permitting access by a network user to a resource of said information network in accordance with at least one of said security relationships;
(c) monitoring activity associated with said network user's accessing said network resource in step (b);
and
(d) controllably modifying one or more of said security relationships, in dependence upon one or more characteristics of said activity monitored in step (c), in a manner that affects the ability of said network user to access a network resource.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Integrated network security access control system

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Abstract

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