BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide

Security overview

The BusinessObjects Enterprise architecture addresses the many security concerns that affect today's businesses and organizations. The current release supports features such as distributed security, single sign-on, resource access security, granular object rights, and third-party Windows NT, LDAP, and Windows AD authentication in order to protect against unauthorized access. To allow for further customization of security, BusinessObjects Enterprise supports dynamically loaded processing extensions. And, for monitoring and auditing purposes, BusinessObjects Enterprise allows you to log various web statistics, thus enabling you to detect potential security concerns.

Because BusinessObjects Enterprise provides the framework for an increasing number of components from the Enterprise family of Business Objects products, this section details the security features and related functionality to show how the framework itself enforces and maintains security. As such, this section does not provide explicit procedural details; instead, it focuses on conceptual information and provides links to key procedures.

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• Authentication and authorization
• Security management components
• Active trust relationship
• Sessions and session tracking
• Environment protection
• Auditing web activity
• Protection against malicious logon attempts

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• For key procedures that show how to modify the default accounts, passwords, and other security settings, see "Making initial security settings" on page 36.
• For procedures that show how to set up authentication, users, and groups, see "Managing User Accounts and Groups" on page 237.
• For procedures that show how to set object rights for your BusinessObjects Enterprise content, see "Controlling User Access" on page 309.