7. A method comprising: receiving, with a network security device, network traffic from an endpoint device; in response to receiving the network traffic, requesting, with the network security device, authorization information from an intermediate storage device in accordance with Interface for Metadata Access Point (IF-MAP) protocol, wherein the intermediate storage device stores the authorization information in accordance with a first IF-MAP authorization data model that complies with an IF-MAP standard; receiving, with the network security device, the authorization information from the intermediate storage device; applying, with the network security device, an import translation policy to translate the authorization information stored in accordance the first IF-MAP authorization data model into translated authorization information that complies with a second proprietary authorization data model, wherein the second IF-MAP authorization data model is different from the first proprietary authorization data model; and forwarding, with the network security device, the network traffic based on the translated authorization information.
7. A method comprising: receiving, with a network security device, network traffic from an endpoint device; in response to receiving the network traffic, requesting, with the network security device, authorization information from an intermediate storage device in accordance with Interface for Metadata Access Point (IF-MAP) protocol, wherein the intermediate storage device stores the authorization information in accordance with a first IF-MAP authorization data model that complies with an IF-MAP standard; receiving, with the network security device, the authorization information from the intermediate storage device; applying, with the network security device, an import translation policy to translate the authorization information stored in accordance the first IF-MAP authorization data model into translated authorization information that complies with a second proprietary authorization data model, wherein the second IF-MAP authorization data model is different from the first proprietary authorization data model; and forwarding, with the network security device, the network traffic based on the translated authorization information. 10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first IF-MAP authorization data model defines a first set of classes by which to classify portions of the authentication information, wherein the second proprietary authorization data model defines a second set of classes by which to classify portions of the translated authorization information, wherein at least one of the classes of the first set is different from at least one of the classes of the second set, wherein the import translation policy comprises data that defines rules to map each class of the first set of classes to one or more classes of the second set of classes, and wherein applying the import translation policy comprises applying the rules of the import translation policy to map each of the classified portions of the authentication information to a corresponding one or more of the classified portions of the translated authentication information.