Overview of SAS Intelligence Platform Security

The security features of the SAS Intelligence Platform offer the following benefits:

single sign-on from and across disparate systems
secure access to data and metadata
role-based access to application features
confidential transmission and storage of data
logging and auditing of security events
access control reporting

The SAS Intelligence Platform's security model cooperates with external systems such as the host environment, the Web realm, and third-party databases. To coordinate identity information, SAS keeps a copy of one or more IDs (such as host, Active Directory, LDAP, or Web account IDs) for each user. This requirement does not apply to any users for whom a generic PUBLIC identity is sufficient.

For a comprehensive discussion of security and detailed information about security administration activities, see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Security Administration Guide, which is available at http://support.sas.com/93administration.