Determining policy compliance based on existing compliance results

摘要

The application of compliance results from at least a portion of one policy to one or more additional policies that are different from the first policy without having to run compliance checks for the one or more additional policies. The policies consist of compliance checks that each have one or more arguments indicating compliance conditions associated with them. When data is subjected to the compliance checks of the first policy, compliance results are produced corresponding to each compliance check and its associated arguments. A unique identifier is created that represents a combination of both a compliance check and its associated arguments of the first policy. The unique identifier is then associated with the compliance result corresponding to the compliance check and its associated arguments that make up the unique identifier. The compliance result associated with the unique identifier is then applied to a second policy.