Security overview

This section presents a quick overview of Content Cortex security features and design.

How does Content Cortex secure its objects?
Object security depends on several inter-related security features.
How is security applied?
Content Cortex provides several ways to apply security to objects.
User authentication
All logins to Content Cortex are done through the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS).
Configuring authentication and authorization
Authentication and authorization require different kinds of configuration.
Security cache
For performance reasons, Content Platform Engine caches information on users, groups, and realms returned by the directory service.
Security administrators and security tools
Working with security requires several administrative accounts and a number of different tools.