Abstract: A system for managing computer security policies includes a policy management system that provides computer security policies to container host machines. The policy management system retrieves images of software containers from an image registry and generates computer security policies that are specific for each image. A container host machine informs the policy management system when an image is pulled from the image registry into the container host machine. The policy management system identifies a computer security policy that is applicable to the image and provides the computer security policy to the container host machine. The container host machine can also locally identify the applicable computer security policy from among computer security policies that are received from the policy management system. The container host machine enforces the computer security policy and other currently existing computer security policies.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing administration in a secure community, or communication system, is accomplished by dividing the single computing devices functionality of the administrator/officer/server into physically separate computing devices that function as a serving entity and an administrative entity. In the secure system, when an administrative entity has an administrative function to perform for one of its end-users, it requests a permissions matrix from the serving entity. The serving entity, after authenticating the administrative entity, sends the permissions matrix to the requesting administrative entity in an encoded format. The permissions matrix indicates which administrative functions the requesting administrative entity is authorized to perform for its affiliated end-users. Upon receiving the permissions matrix, the administrative entity verifies the authenticity of the permissions matrix based on the encoded format.