11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 , wherein generating the second representation further comprises: generating the second representation of the security policy for each resource that is located between the first resource and the second resource within the resource hierarchy.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 , wherein the one or more resources are arranged in a resource hierarchy, and wherein the first representation of the security policy is associated with a first resource in the resource hierarchy and wherein the second representation of the security policy is associated with a second resource that is associated with a different level of the hierarchy.