About This Document

Audience

This document helps SAS administrators understand and use suite-wide security features of the SAS Intelligence Platform.

This document is organized as follows:

The first part, Fundamentals, contains the essential information for all security administrators:
- a brief overview of security features
- an orientation to managing SAS metadata identities (users, groups, and roles)
- an orientation to the SAS metadata authorization layer (permissions)
- instructions for a few security-related tasks
The rest of the document contains reference information and instructions for specialized configurations.

This document assumes the following conditions:

You are familiar with the operating systems in your environment.
You have completed all installation, deployment, and (if applicable) migration tasks.
You are familiar with the concepts and terminology that are introduced in SAS Intelligence Platform: Overview.

Here is a list of related topics that are outside the scope of this book:

Security features that are provided by the middle tier are documented in SAS Intelligence Platform: Middle-Tier Administration Guide.
Security features that are unique to a particular client are documented in the administrative guide for that client. For example, details about a client’s roles and capabilities are documented as application-specific features. See SAS Intelligence Platform: Desktop Application Adminstration Guide, SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide, or the administrative documentation for your solution.
Comprehensive information about encryption is in a separate document. See Encryption in SAS.
Comprehensive information about each implementation of fine-grained access to data is included in documentation for the implementation’s underlying technology. See Fine-Grained Controls for Data.
For assistance in using a particular interface to perform security-related tasks, see the documentation for that interface.