Chapter 10. Security

In this chapter, we discuss about the security features of SAP MDM 7.1. We will talk about the various aspects of security for accessing the MDM system, keeping in mind the perspective of the end users, network, auditing, and the repository's content.

Users, roles, and authentication

As I already mentioned in the previous chapter, MDM allows you to restrict access to the MDM servers as well as the MDM repositories by setting secure passwords.

Password protecting the MDM servers

By default, the MDM servers are not password-protected. This means that anyone can perform the MDM server-level Console functions such as starting the MDM server, stopping the MDM server, creating the repository, and so on. The list of these privileged ...

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