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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
book

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

by Dustin Adkison
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Designing your security model

Understanding how Cognos BI security works and setting up the proper security is essential in any reporting environment for information that needs to be protected. The need to protect data can be based on how sensitive the data is to your stakeholders, or it could be governed by laws and regulations such as we see with healthcare and financial information. To understand how Cognos BI security all ties together, we will start by looking at an overview of the various pieces of Cognos BI security.

The CAF

The Cognos Application Firewall (CAF) can be turned on inside of Cognos Configuration. You simply set Enable CAF validation? to True and restart your environment:

The CAF will protect your environment from outside attacks. ...

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