Audience. SAS 9.4 Security Administration Guide

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Audience

This document helps SAS administrators understand the suite-wide security features of the 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 selected tasks

• The rest of the document contains reference information and instructions for specialized configurations.

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 specific to a particular product are documented in the administrative guide for that product. For example, roles and capabilities are documented as application-specific features.

• 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” on page 62 .

• For assistance in using a particular interface to perform security-related tasks, see the documentation for that interface.

Requirements

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.

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• You are familiar with the concepts and terminology that are introduced in

SAS

Intelligence Platform: Overview

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