About This Guide

This guide provides recommendations for safeguarding your Siebel Business Applications deployment from internal (intranet) and external (Internet) security threats. The most important reason for securing an application is to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of an organization's critical information. However, to protect your Siebel Business Applications data, you must secure both your Siebel Business Applications and the computing environment in which they run.

This guide provides the information you need to protect your Siebel Business Applications deployment:

• It describes Siebel security architecture and security concepts.

• It outlines the security controls provided by Siebel Business Applications.

• It provides detailed procedural information on how to implement the security controls to secure your application

• Appendix C, "Siebel Security Hardening" provides general recommendations for securing Siebel Business Applications and their deployment environment (network, operating system, database).

• Appendix C provides detailed procedural information on implementing Siebel security controls only where such information is not provided elsewhere in the Siebel Bookshelf.

  
  

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