System and method of real-time change propagation and activation using a distributed object cache

A system comprising:

• a first computing node of a plurality of computing nodes in a cluster, the first computing node receiving security information, the security information comprising one or more sets of security policies and other information used by each node of the cluster to control of access to resources of the cluster and wherein the security information is received in response to a change in the security information, storing the security information locally in the first node, storing the security information including the one or more sets of security policies as an object on a distributed object cache of the cluster, and distributing the object storing the security information from the distributed object cache, wherein storing the security information on the distributed object cache comprises writing the security information to a Application Program Interface (API), the API comprising a map abstraction of nodes of the distributed object cache, wherein storing the security information on the distributed object cache comprises writing the security information to a journal, the journal comprising a plurality of log entries, each log entry comprising information identifying changes made to the security information and a time of the changes, wherein distributing the security information including the one or more sets of security policies from the distributed object cache comprises providing a notification from at least one of the journal or the API to the second computing node;
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• a second computing node of the plurality of computing nodes in the cluster, the second computing node maintaining locally stored security information including one or more security policies, wherein distributing the security information from the distributed object cache comprises updating the locally stored security information including the locally stored one or more security policies on the second computing node with the security information from the object storing the security information from distributed object cache based on the log entries of the journal and a type of the security information.

A computer-readable device comprising a set of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to propagate security information to a plurality of nodes in a cluster by:

• receiving the security information at a first node of the plurality of nodes in the cluster, the security information comprising one or more sets of security policies and other information used by each node of the cluster to control of access to resources of the cluster and wherein the security information is received in response to a change in the security information;
• storing the security information locally in the first node;
• storing by the first node the security information including the one or more sets of security policies as an object on a distributed object cache of the cluster by writing the security information to an Application Program Interface (API), the API comprising a map abstraction of nodes of the distributed object cache;
• distributing the object storing the security information including the one or more sets of security policies from the distributed object cache to at least one second node of the plurality of nodes in the cluster;
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• updating locally stored security information including one or more sets of security policies on the at least one second node of the plurality of nodes with the security information from the distributed object cache.