METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING POLICY-BASED REVOCATION OF NETWORK SECURITY CREDENTIALS

A method for policy-based revocation of network security credentials comprises receiving and storing one or more credential revocation rules, wherein each of the credential revocation rules specifies one or more first attributes and first values of the first attributes, associated with one or more credentials to be revoked; receiving and storing one or more network credentials, wherein each of the network credentials comprises one or more second attributes and second values of the second attributes; and when second values of one or more second attributes of a particular network credential among the one or more network credentials match first values of one or more first attributes of one of the credential revocation rules, determining that the particular network credential is invalid, and performing a responsive action.