Digital policy management requirements and architecture

Digital policy management forms the backbone of policy based management paradigm. This paradigm is useful for cognitive systems that address situation awareness, common operating picture, smart networks, and cost effective and efficient operations. Our research in this emerging area has provided a detailed view of what the internal structure of a digital policy looks like, and what functions the digital policy management should support. Our research has also provided an architecture that performs these functions; this architecture discussed along with its benefits to the enterprise. An implementation of this architecture, which we have not done yet, can lead to an invaluable decision support tool to handle context dependent security configurations and agile operations in a dynamically changing environment.