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Chapter 13: Getting Started With Security Administration in Adaptive Server

Policy-Based Access Control

The policy-based access control provides a powerful and flexible means of protecting data, down to the row level. Administrators define security policies that are based on the value of individual data elements, and the server enforces these policies transparently. Once an administrator defines a policy, it is automatically invoked whenever the affected data is queried through applications, ad hoc queries, stored procedures, views, and so on.

Using the policy-based access control simplifies both the security administration of an Adaptive Server installation and the application development process because it is the server, not the application, that enforces security. This allows developers to concentrate on implementing business functionality while administrators focus on defining a security policy to enforce consistently across the entire server. These are the features that allow you to implement policy-based access control:

For more information on how to implement policy-based access controls, see “Using row-level access control”.





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