Local security usage scenario

Consider a scenario where mobile agents working on many different customer sites want to ensure that the confidential data of one customer is not accidentally shared with another. Local security features, using different keys, and possibly different cryptographic strengths, provide a simple method for protecting different customer data held on a single machine .

A simple extension of this scenario could be that the protected local data is accessed using a key that is pulled from a secure queue on an MQe server node. The agent's client has to authenticate itself to access the server queue and pull the local key data, but never knows the actual key.

One of the advantages of taking this approach is that an audit trail is easily accumulated for all access to customer specific data.


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