Ensuring Data Security

Sybase Data Federation protects intellectual property and sensitive data by ensuring that only users who are authorized to access specific data can access it. Data security features include fine-grained access policies, authentication directory service integration, encryption, firewall integration, and audit logging.

With Data Federation, you do not have to give a remote user an account on your network for that user to access specific data on that network. Nor do you need to tell users where data is physically located to give them access to it. Data Federation protects intellectual property and confidential data:

By providing a consistent, orderly, managed way to access data, which is much more efficient than ad hoc solutions
By providing fine-grained controls that implement access policies in a consistent manner and are modified easily in response to policy changes
By integrating with directory services for authentication of users
By integrating with firewalls via HTTPS for secure operation across locations
By encrypting all Data Federation communications via SSL
By giving data owners an SSL-based encryption option for data transmissions
By providing audit logging capabilities that can be configured to record and issue alerts for events such as file accesses, file writes, or data service executions