Digital rights management (DRM) can be effectively implemented through use
of an anchor point and binding records within a user's anchor point
domain. Assigning security levels to various components within an anchor
point based DRM system and evaluating them against a security criterion
provides additional protection against authorized access of the digital
content. The content provider may specify the security criterion (e.g., a
security level threshold), and the ability to use the digital content is
denied or granted based on the ability of components to satisfy this
criterion. For example, the ability to use a digital property instance is
granted to a content handler that satisfies the security criterion and
denied to a content handle that does not satisfy the security criterion.