SAP Mobile Platform Authentication Quick Start

This quick start task flow identifies security setup activities in an SAP Mobile Platform environment. Activities performed by the SAP Mobile Platform administrator, may also require the collaboration or participation of mobile application developers, or Afaria, security, or database administrators, depending on the role distribution within your organization.

Prerequisites

Complete the Platform Security Quick Start tasks before proceeding with authentication quick start tasks.

Task

SAP Mobile Platform supports the following authentication types:

Anonymous authentication: This provides no authentication of users, and allows access to application data, such as applications that allow users to browse read-only information without logging in by assigning the anonymous security configuration to the application.
Basic authentication: This authentication type uses user name and password only. This is a less secure authentication type.
Token-based authentication: Also called single sign-on (SSO), this authentication type enables access control for multiple, independent systems, affording the user a single login to access multiple secure systems. This is the most common authentication type.
Certificate-based authentication: This authentication type uses X.509, a standard for digital certificates. X.509 provides the strongest form of authentication security in SAP Mobile Platform by managing authentication across platforms and out to the network edge.

Securing Platform Administration Tasks
Task	Anonymous Authentication	Basic Authentication	Token-based Authentication	Certificate-based Authentication
Configure security profiles	Configuring Security Profiles	Configuring Security Profiles	Configuring Security Profiles	Configuring Security Profiles
Map a logical role to a physical role	Not applicable	Mapping a Logical Role to a Physical Role	Mapping a Logical Role to a Physical Role	Mapping a Logical Role to a Physical Role
Integrate SAP Mobile Platform with your SSO solution	Not applicable	Not applicable	Integrating SAP Mobile Platform with Your SSO Solution	Not applicable
Manage keystore and truststore certificates	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Managing Keystore and Truststore Certificates
Deploy applications	Deploy Applications	Deploy Applications	Deploy Applications	Deploy Applications