Creating security policy

The security policy is used to hide records from certain groups of users.

About this task

Only users who are members of groups listed in the SecurityPolicy record have visibility to records which are protected by the SecurityPolicy. The ALM schema uses the SecurityPolicy to protect ALMCategory, ALMProject, ALMPhase, ALMIteration, ALMRole, ALMComment, ALMRequest, ALMTask, ALMActivity, BTBuild and ALMWorkConfiguration record types.

Only users listed as a member in the ALMAdmin record can create a SecurityPolicy record. Only a user who is also has the SecurityAdministrator privilege can set the Context Groups field of the SecurityPolicy, which is necessary for indicating which groups are allowed to have visibility to records which are protected by the SecurityPolicy.

Note: By default, the Everyone SecurityPolicy is added to BTBuild records that are created, so users that are not using HCL VersionVault ALM can still see BTBuild records they may be working with.

Procedure

  1. In the HCL VersionVault client, click File > New > ALMSecurityPolicy.
  2. Enter a name for the security policy in the Name field. Enter a description of the security policy in the Description field. Specify a user group. Select a security policy (for example, OpenUp Security).
  3. Click OK.