BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Conventional security models protect data and electronic assets by providing a secure perimeter around an organization. The secure perimeter includes not only the data sources, servers, and other analogous assets, but also clients employed by users of the assets. However, applications remain vulnerable, unscrupulous individuals may still obtain copies of sensitive data and administration of the secure perimeter may be complex and expensive. In addition, data sources, such as conventional databases and modern data repositories including distributed message queues, may not be configured for other types of security, such as tokenization of data and federated identity management. Accordingly, an improved mechanism for providing security for data sources is desired.

