Abstract: As a result of the inability to assign security in multiple applications at one time, there is an opportunity to tie the disparate security systems together. Security synchronization services is a method and apparatus that uses roles to provide a common administration experience for all applications that use it and fits better for new applications.

Abstract: As a result of the inability to assign security in multiple applications at one time, there is an opportunity to tie the disparate security systems together. Security synchronization services is a method and apparatus that uses roles to provide a common administration experience for all applications that use it and fits better for new applications.

Abstract: A pluggable data filtering system allows users to access secure and non-secure data, using completely flexible filtering terms. The system provides functionality that identifies data that is both responsive to the user's search, and for which the user has been granted access rights, and automatically provides those data to the user, as filtered in accordance with the user's access rights. One particular embodiment of the pluggable data filtering system uses an interface implementation that assigns globally unique identifiers to filterable entities and filterable container entities that may be secure or non-secure, and uses detailed data access rights assigned to various user roles.