14 Securing Oracle Reports Services

The celebrated openness of the Internet brings with it concerns about controlling who has access to what confidential company information. Oracle Reports provides a number of security options that enable you to ensure that the appropriate users are getting important data in a secure fashion. This chapter contains the following sections:

• Introduction to Oracle Reports Security

• Out-of-the-Box Behavior

• Authentication in Oracle Reports

• Authorization in Oracle Reports

• End-to-End Security Scenarios

• Recommended Production Scenario for JPS-Based Security

• Recommended Production Scenario for Portal-Based Security

• Managing Users and Security Policies

• Configuring External Oracle Internet Directory and Reassociating Reports

• Forms and Reports Security Recommendations

• Intermediate-level Security for Forms and Reports

• Database Proxy Authentication

• Oracle Portal-Based Security for Backward Compatibility

• Security Interfaces