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Managing security
HCL Launch uses a flexible team-based and role-based security model that maps to your organizational structure.
Encryption key tools
Using the encryption key tools, you can manage your encryption keys.

Managing security
HCL Launch uses a flexible team-based and role-based security model that maps to your organizational structure.
- Guidelines for setting up server security
  Although there is no single best way to set up security for the server, the following steps are sufficient in most cases.
- SSL configuration
  With Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, clients and servers can communicate securely by encrypting all communications. Data is encrypted before it is sent and decrypted by the recipient. This communication cannot be deciphered or modified by third-parties. In addition to encryption, SSL can also support authentication.
- Encryption key tools
  Using the encryption key tools, you can manage your encryption keys.
  - Creating an encryption key
    Use the keycreate tool to create a key for secure property encryption without removing previous keys or changing the primary encryption key.
  - Rotating an encryption key
    The keyrotate tool uses the primary encryption key to re-encrypt database secure data that was encrypted with other keys.
  - Deleting an encryption key
    The keydelete command removes a key for secure property encryption.
- Authorization realms
  Use the Authorization Realms pane to create authorization realms and user groups for the server. Groups can be imported from external systems, such as LDAP.
- Authentication realms
  Authentication realms manage users and determine user identity within authorization realms for the server.
- Roles and permissions
  A role is a list of permissions that users have on the HCL Launch server. These permissions include the ability to create, edit, and delete objects, such as applications, environments, and components. The permission also includes the parts of the server interface that users can access.
- Security teams
  Users and groups on the server are assigned roles when they are added to teams.
- Security types
  Security types define categories of objects on the server. You can put all objects into a single category, or you can put them in separate categories and give roles different access rights to different categories.
- Tokens
  Tokens provide authorization for agents, agent relays, users, and external systems or applications from the server. Agents use tokens when they run process steps and communicate with the HCL Launch server and external services.

Encryption key tools

Using the encryption key tools, you can manage your encryption keys.

Starting with version 7.2.3, HCL Launch includes encryption tools that you can use to create, delete, and rotate your encryption keys. The keycreate, keydelete, keyrotate, and csorphanscan tools are available in the /bin directory.