US Patent 9684793 Entitlement security and control

A system, apparatus, and method are provided for entitlement security and control. An example method includes granting an entitlement permission after an entitlement request for the computer user has been determined to satisfy one or more predetermined entitlement rules for one or more computer resources of a computing device. Also, an audit trail is generated, comprising information relating to the computer user receiving the entitlement permission. In addition, a change to one or more user characteristics of the computer user in one or more data sources is tracked. The audit trail is automatically updated to reflect the change to the one or more data sources. Other embodiments are described and claimed.