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    This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.

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  • IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Documentation

    Welcome to the IBM® Domino 10.0.1 Administrator Help.

    • What's new in IBM® Domino® 10?

      Learn about all of the new features for administrators in IBM® Domino® 10.

    • Overview

      Welcome to IBM® Domino® Administrator Help.

    • Installing

      Use this documentation to install the IBM® Domino® server and subsequently deploy the IBM Notes® client.

    • Planning

      Use this topic as an overview of planning task.

    • Configuring

      Use this information to configure an IBM® Domino® network, users, servers (including Web servers), directory services, security, messaging, widgets and live text, and server clusters. Also use this information to set up IBM iNotes® on a server using Domino Off-Line Services (DOLS).

    • Securing

      This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.

      • Overview of Domino security

        Setting up security for your organization is a critical task. Your security infrastructure is critical for protecting your organization's IT resources and assets. As an administrator, you need to give careful consideration to your organization's security requirements before you set up any servers or users. Up-front planning pays off later in minimizing the risks of compromised security.

      • Server access for Notes® users, Internet users, and Domino® servers

        To control user and server access to other servers, Domino® uses the settings you specify on the Security tab in the Server document as well as the rules of validation and authentication. If a server validates and authenticates the Notes® user, Internet user, or server, and the settings in the Server document allow access, the user or server is allowed access to the server.

      • The database access control list

        Every .NSF database has an access control list (ACL) that specifies the level of access that users and servers have to that database. Although the names of access levels are the same for users and servers, those assigned to users determine the tasks that they can perform in a database, while those assigned to servers determine what information within the database the servers can replicate. Only someone with Manager access can create or modify the ACL.

      • Domino® server and Notes® user IDs

        Domino® uses ID files to identify users and to control access to servers. Every Domino server, Notes® certifier, and Notes user must have an ID.

      • The execution control list

        You use an execution control list (ECL) to configure workstation data security. An ECL protects user workstations against active content from unknown or suspect sources, and can be configured to limit the action of any active content that does run on workstations.

      • Domino® server-based certification authority

        You can set up a Domino® certifier that uses the CA process server task to manage and process certificate requests. The CA process runs as a process on Domino servers that are used to issue certificates. When you set up a Notes® or Internet certifier, you link it to the CA process on the server in order to take advantage of CA process activities. Only one instance of the CA process can run on a server; however, the process can be linked to multiple certifiers.

      • SSL security

        Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a security protocol that provides communications privacy and authentication for Domino® server tasks that operate over TCP/IP.

      • SSL and S/MIME for clients

        Clients can use a Domino® certificate authority (CA) application or a third-party CA to obtain certificates for secure SSL and S/MIME communication.

      • Encryption

        Encryption protects data from unauthorized access.

      • Name-and-password authentication for Internet/intranet clients

        Name-and-password authentication, also known as basic password authentication, uses a basic challenge/response protocol to ask users for their names and passwords and then verifies the accuracy of the passwords by checking them against a secure hash of the password stored in Person documents in the Domino® Directory.

      • Multi-server session-based authentication (single sign-on)

        Multi-server session-based authentication, also known as single sign-on (SSO), allows Web users to log in once to a Domino® or WebSphere® server, and then access any other Domino or WebSphere servers in the same DNS domain that are enabled for single sign-on (SSO) without having to log in again.

      • Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to configure federated-identity authentication

        Federated identity is a means of achieving single sign-on, providing user convenience and helping to reduce administrative cost. In Domino® and Notes®, federated identity for user authentication uses the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) standard from OASIS.

      • Using a credential store to share credentials

        In this release, the on-premises Domino® server can use a credential store application (credstore.nsf). The credential store is a secure repository for document encryption keys and other tokens necessary for Notes® client users to grant access to applications that use the OAuth (open authorization) protocol. OAuth allows user credentials to be shared with compliant applications so that users avoid extra password prompts.

    • Administering

      This documentation provides information about the administration tools for managing and monitoring IBM Domino® servers and databases.

    • Tuning

      Use this information to improve IBM® Domino® server, Domino Web server, and messaging performance through the use of resource balancing and activity trends, Server.Load commands, advanced database properties, cluster statistics, and the Server Health Monitor.

    • Troubleshooting

      This section describes how to find and solve problems with IBM® Domino® server and Administrator client.

    • Glossary

Securing

This section describes IBM® Domino® security features, including execution control lists, IDs, and SSL.

  • Planning security
  • Server access for IBM® Notes® users, Internet users, and Domino® servers
  • Domino® server and Notes® user IDs
  • Database access control lists
  • Execution control lists
  • Name-and-password authentication for Internet/intranet clients
  • Electronic signatures
  • Encryption
  • Domino® server-based certification authority
  • SSL security
  • SSL and S/MIME for clients

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