Security Attributes Fundamentals
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- UpdatedDec 3, 2023
- 1 minute read
- Vancouver
- Platform Security
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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.