Containerized Security for Managed Content Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Content management systems face challenges in securing sensitive content from being accessed by all users, as global search functions may reveal confidential documents, necessitating a way to restrict access to specific content items for a subset of users.
Innovation Solution
Implementing containerized security by associating content items with collaboration environments, using access control objects and aspects to ensure that only members of the collaboration group can access the content, while keeping it hidden from non-members, including through the use of access control lists and visual indicators.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If global search functionality is implemented in content management system, then users can access and search all content, but confidential documents may be exposed to unauthorized users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the content management system into multiple isolated collaboration spaces, each with its own search functionality. Users can only search within their assigned collaboration space, not across the entire system. This segmentation prevents global search from exposing confidential documents while maintaining local search capabilities for authorized content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements differentiated access control where different collaboration spaces have different security properties. Sensitive content is placed in collaboration spaces with restricted access, while public content resides in spaces with broader access. This allows the system to provide both strong security for confidential documents and easy search access for public content, with each space having quality tailored to its needs.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If access control restrictions are imposed on content items, then security is improved, but system complexity increases due to multiple access control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple access control mechanisms (container-level security, object-level security, and collaboration space membership) into a unified collaboration space framework. Instead of managing separate access control systems, the patent integrates them so that collaboration space membership automatically governs access to all content within that space, simplifying the overall access control structure while maintaining comprehensive security.
Data Source
AI summary
Containerized security is disclosed. An indication is received that a content item included in a body of managed content is associated with a container. A security measure is associated with the content item, based at least in part on the association of the content item with the container, that causes access to the content item by a user who is not associated with the container but who otherwise would have access to the content item within the body of managed content to be denied.