Client-Library and Server-Library applications can use the security services provided by third-party security software to authenticate users and protect data transmitted between machines on a network.
This chapter discusses how network-based security works and what you need to configure to use it. It covers the following topics:
Network-based security works for Client-Library version
11.1 and later, and requires a server based on Open Server version
11.1 or later. Open Client DB-Library and SQL Server 11.0 do not
support network-based security services.