Architecture for Secure Knowledge Management over the Network

Secure knowledge management refers to the management of knowledge while sharing among members of virtual communities in distributed computer networks adhering to the principles of security and privacy. Security of the knowledge management over the network is critical, since one cannot restrict the knowledge sharing geographically and moreover the intellectual asset has to be protected. This paper proposes a new architecture for managing knowledge over the public network securely. The architecture stack has different level of security. One can implement the architecture with any number of stack levels depending upon the amount of security constraints that would like to impose on knowledge. Moreover hierarchical access controls proposed in this paper has a number of visual modes to inherit the access permissions and policies of the different roles.