Security Attributes Fundamentals

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.