IBM FileNet Content Manager Implementation Best Practices and Recommendations

Security

This chapter describes the security mechanisms provided by the Content Platform Engine to secure the resources under its management against unauthorized access and to ensure that authorized users are given only sufficient access to carry out the tasks assigned to them, referred to as access control. In addition, it provides a series of recommendations for how best to employ those mechanisms to achieve the desired access control goals.

We discuss the following topics in the chapter:

•Access control

•Authentication

•Authorization

•Security ...