Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20080047019
Filing Date: August 16, 2006
Inventors: John Reumann, Dinesh C. Verma
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
Current U.S. Classification: 726, 726/026000
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The method according to Claim 1, wherein:
said operational data comprises a record of a unique address allocation to a user device attempting to access said computer network;
said enterprise data comprises credentials associated with local authentication at said user device;
the step of correlating said operational data with said enterprise data to obtain correlated data comprises associating said unique address and said credentials with authentication information stored in a single-sign-on server; and
the step of using said correlated data to improve security of said computer network comprises providing a user of said user device with single sign-on ability responsive to an indication of an appropriate match between said unique address and said credentials and said authentication information.