A Security Attribute is highly configurable piece of information about a Subject or it’s Environment, when used in access controls, enables fine grain security configuration in a non-complex way.

Overview

Security Attributes offer an alternative method for access control via role definitions to currently practiced ACL(Access Control Lists) configuration. Security Attributes offer several advantages to ACL-based configurations:
Better Security
Improved permissions evaluation obfuscation ensures that your organization remains secure.
Human Readable
Security Attributes are designed to simplify the creation and ease of use of security permissions.
Flexible Security
Build persona definitions from both Out-of-Box configuration in combination with customer defined personas.
Logging and Auditing
Security Attributes offer detailed auditing and logging to give more insight to security measures and theory.