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In this paper we describe an approach to the facilitation of system-wide security that enables fine-grained access control within systems in which third party web services are deployed. The primary motivation for the work comes from the authors’ research into the development of grid-enabled healthcare systems (or health grids). Indeed, we would argue that if the e-Health dream is to become reality,...