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Employee Accesses an Engineering Realm Resource

In the SiteMinder protected network described in the previous figure, a regular employee's authentication data resides in the Central Authentication user directory, and the employee attempts to access a resource in the Engineering Realm. When the employee is properly authenticated, the Policy Server recognizes that the Engineering realm uses its own authorization directory. The Policy Server looks for the directory mapping between the Central Authentication user directory and the Engineering Realm authorization user directory, then maps the users identity to the authorization directory. Once this is done, the Policy Server can verify if the employee has access to the requested realm.