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Policy Processing

The Policy Server use policies to authorize access to resources and provide entitlements to authorized users. The resources protected by policies are usually stored in a hierarchy that mimics security, organizational, and business requirements and takes advantage of the SiteMinder's hierarchical or "nested" realms. The remainder of this chapter discusses how SiteMinder processes policies and gathers entitlements in a hierarchical structure.