Security

In part 1 we started working on a security model for DeepSee and create a user type having privileges typical of end users. In this part we are going to create a second user type with ability to edit and create DeepSee pivot tables and dashboards. 

I have a few cubes and numerous dashboards and I am ready to deploy them to our end users and administrators. How to configure DeepSee so that users don’t disrupt each other’s areas and are restricted from using functionalities specific to developers?

Hi guys,

Couple days ago, a customer approached me with the wish to enhance their existing legacy application, that uses SOAP (Web)Services so it shares the same authorization with their new application API based on REST. As their new application uses OAuth2, the challenge was clear; how to pass access token with SOAP request to the server.

After spending some time on Google, it turned out, that one of possible ways of doing so was adding an extra header element to the SOAP envelope and then making sure the WebService implementation does what is needed to validate the access token.

Hi All,

Can someone help me getting the security features & standards which InterSystmes Cache adheres to ISO 27001 & other security & privacy standards.

Also if you can tell me the algorithm used for database encryption & key strength by default.

This is required for a security audit.

Thanks in advance.
Ashish

Hi Community!

Please welcome a new video on Developer Community YouTube Channel:

Building Powerful LDAP Configurations

I need to automate the handling of usernames passwords, serverNames etc for use in the sending and receiving  of emails, logging into SFTP servers etc etc for use within COS code
To manage external passwords we could use LastPass or any other proprietary password loggers, but I need to be able to call them as part of the automation (COS code) and occasionally visually look them up to "remind" the staff of their passwords.

any suggestions as to the best class data constructs to handle this scenario. Should the whole table be encrypted, only the passwords etc.

each employee has their own login details, past password storage (non-re-use)  could be useful.

we're talking of 200-300+ passwords here.

kevin

Hi All,

Actually, I'm developing few restful API's. I want to create a authentication tokens and display it on my login restful API. If I'm using CSP sessionId, how can I validate the session Id's in another or continues restful API's. else, is there any other approach to handle this task. 

My Primary goal is, I have to integrate 2 different front end applications. One is Zen framework another one is web pages from Python. 

If any lead, it would be appreciated. 

Thanks,

Arun Kumar Durairaj. 

I have created some roles, and would like to know if there is a way to export the Roles and save them off to a file? I want to create a backup file of these roles for DR purpose, and in case I ever get hit by the preverbal bus.

Thanks

Scott Roth

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

We have a new requirement being push down by our Data Security to no longer use Local SQL Accounts to access our Databases. So they asked me to create a Service Account that is on the Domain for our connections to each database.

I tried just changing my JDBC connection to using this Service Account and Password but I am not having any luck trying to connect to the database.

" Connection failed.
Login failed for user 'osumc\CPD.Intr.Service'. ClientConnectionId:ade97239-c1c8-4ed1-8230-d274edb2e731 "

In reading some of the material about using a Domain Service Account it mentions having kerberos installed. Is this needed for Ensemble JDBC connection to a Microsoft SQL Database to work using a Domain Service Account?

Does anyone use JDBC connections to connect to non cache databases using a Domain Service Account? If so how was this accomplished?

Thanks

Scott

I wrote a ZAUTHENTICATE.mac a couple of months back, and found recently that it is creating coredumps on almost a nightly basis. I think I have figured out this problem to be not clearing out my MsgSearch after I am doing 2 of them within the code.

1. Get User Attibutes from AD

2. Get User Groups From AD

So while I am trying to cleanup the code I thought it would be a good time to add a Certificate and TLS to the mix since I should of been using that all along. However I keep running into issues

Error message: Cache error: <UNDEFINED>ZAUTHENTICATE+104^ZAUTHENTICATE *LD

its not displaying the error code it should be from the ZAUTHENTICATE in the Audit Database. How do I get it to tell me where it is actually stopping in the ZAUTHENTICATE code? Or can someone look at the code below and see what I might be doing wrong

In old Caché versions it was possible to create a new role based on predefined %Developer by copying it and adding some resources as needed. It was true at least from 2010.1 to 2015.1.

After upgrade from 2015.1.4 to 2017.2.1 it turned that it's only partially true now. User with a "New-Developer" role can enter Studio and open existing cls/mac/etc for editing and everything is OK unless he tries to create something new (Ctrl-N), than he gets a pop-up with %msg: <User xxx does not have enough privilege to execute stored procedure %CSP.StudioTemplateMgr_Templates>

The solution found was simple: user defined roles based on %Developer should be assigned to %Developer rather than contain all its resources inside. The simplest way to achieve it is to make a "New-Developer" role a member of %Developer. To be fair, InterSystems docs always contained a note

Hi,

I have a client who is considering encryption options in order to comply with a tendering requirement.

Were they to encrypt the production database then what would be a reasonable expectation forthe impact on message throughput. Or possibly more easily answered: what would be the expected impact be on I/O rate and CPU utilization. Are there any benchmarks to which could support an estimate ?

How would this compare with plan B: to use disk encryption ?

Thanks

I need to offer new users on our system a temporary password that is valid for only 48 hours.  This is different than a 60-day password expiration window for existing users' passwords (where a password needs to be changed every 60 days), and is different than a "user expiration date", where you can set a date where the user's account expires and is disabled on that date, and different than the inactivity expiration date where a user becomes active if his account is not used within, say, 30 days.  

What I need is a password-inactivity expiration date such that if the user does not log  for a first time within the time limit (48 hours), then the user account is disabled - but not expired! - and then must be "reset" to a new password (whereupon the cycle begins again, and the user is disabled withint 48 hours if he doesn't log in and change his password!). �

I was running the %File:FileSet class query, with my development user, but I am unable to run this query for an application user.  Does anyone know what resource or service is needed to run this query?  Assume the user has access to a certain directory on the file system needed for the query.

On second though, having tried almost all the available resources and services, perhaps the user doesn't have access to the directory.  How to tell when the error is this: 

set ok=st.%PrepareClassQuery("%File","FileSet")

d $system.Status.DisplayError(ok)
 
ERROR #5540: SQLCODE: -99 Message: User Laura_Test_DEV is not privileged for the operation

Thanks,

Laura