Adaptive Server provides network-based security services that enable you to authenticate users and protect data transmitted among machines on a network.
In a distributed client/server computing environment intruders can view or tamper with confidential data. With Adaptive Server, you can use security services provided by third-party providers to authenticate users, encrypt data, and prevent data tampering.
Depending upon the security mechanism you choose, Adaptive Server allows you to use one or more of these security services:
Unified login – use a security mechanism to authenticate users once without requiring them to supply a name and password every time they log in to an Adaptive Server.
Message confidentiality – encrypt data over the network.
Mutual authentication – use the security mechanism to verify the identity of the client and the server. (This must be requested by the client and cannot be required by Adaptive Server.)
Message integrity – verify that data communications have not been modified.
Replay detection – verify that data has not been intercepted by an intruder.
Out-of-sequence check – verify the order of data communications.
Message origin checks – verify the origin of the message.
Remote procedure security – establish mutual authentication, message confidentiality, and message integrity for remote procedure communications.
The security mechanism you are using may not support
all of these services.
