The Enterprise Environment: What Needs Securing
Figure 12-1 provides an overview of an SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise environment and the different phases of security:
Figure 12-1 Security aspects of SAP BusinessObjects
• Authentication is the first phase. Authentication relates to user IDs and passwords—how SAP BusinessObjects recognizes you.
• Authorization, the second phase of security, relates to what you are allowed to access and do once you have been authenticated. In order to make the process of maintaining authorization simpler, you may use groups.
This chapter is loosely organized according to the workflow in Figure 12-1. You will first ...
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