Managing security

IBM® Cognos® provides a flexible architecture that allows you to customize security according to your needs and integrate easily with your existing infrastructure.

The BI Bus API provides application developers with the ability to:

• log in and out using a security provider or a custom authentication provider to establish a security context for applications

• manage users, groups, and roles

• apply policies to control access to objects in the content store

• grant capabilities to allow specified users, groups, or roles to use specific functionality