ACCESS RIGHTS MONITORING DEVICE AND LOCAL ACCESS RIGHTS MANAGEMENT MODULE

摘要

The invention relates to a device (2) for supervising access rights to information from a plurality of sources (S1, S2, S3) including at least one source (S1) associated with a local access rights management module (4) having a storage database (5) containing the rules relating to accessing information from the source and designed to authorise or refuse (R1, R2, R3) access to information from the associated source as a function of said stored rules. The invention consists of: storage means (8) designed to store rules relating to accessing information from a plurality of sources, rule management means (9) for modifying or defining the rules relating to accessing information from the plurality of sources as a function of at least the users and the applicants, and synchronisation means (9, 6) for identifying the creation or modification by the rule management means of a rule relating to information from the source associated with the local module and for sending data representative of the rule thus created or modified to the local module in order for the local module to update the rules in the storage database thereof.