What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2017

Table 1-2 lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Table 1-2 What's New in Siebel Security Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2017

Topic	Description
"Encrypted Passwords in Siebel Application Interface Profile Configuration"	Modified topic. Describes the password encryption that is involved in Siebel Application Interface configuration.
"Changing Encrypted Passwords Using the Siebel Management Console"	Modified topic. Shows you how to use the Siebel Management Console to change encrypted passwords.
"About Encryption of Siebel Gateway Password Parameters"	Modified topic. For Innovation Pack 2017, the Siebel Gateway registry is used to store operational and connectivity information as well as configuration information for the Siebel Enterprise and Siebel Servers, not the Siebns.dat file.
"Certificate Requirements for Communications"	New topic. Siebel installer for Siebel Business Applications enforces HTTPS during installation. This topic describes the client certificate authentication requirements for communications.
"Disabling Certificate Based Mutual Authentication"	New topic. Describes how to disable client certificate based authentication and run all components over HTTPS.
"Disabling HTTPS"	New topic. Describes how to disable client certificate based authentication and run all components over HTTP.
"About Keystore and Truststore Files"	New topic. Provides some important information about generating the keystore and truststore files.
"Configuring TLS Mutual Authentication for SHA-2 Certificates Using EAI HTTP Transport"	Modified topic. Client authentication is now supported on SHA-2 (TLS v1.2).
"Encrypting Columns in a Business Component"	New topic. Provides an example showing how to create a new encrypted field or column for a business component.
"Configuring Security Adapters Using the Siebel Management Console"	Modified topic. Describes how to configure a Database, LDAP, or Custom security adapter using the Siebel Management Console after you have installed Siebel Business Applications.
"Troubleshooting Secure Parameter Settings"	New topic. Describes how to resolve a problem related to the Enable XSS Filter parameter setting.
Appendix A, "Configuration Parameters Related to Authentication"	Modified appendix. The application configurations formerly defined in the eapps.cfg file and associated with virtual directories on the Web server are now managed by the Siebel Management Console and stored in the Siebel Gateway registry.
Enabling Transport Layer Security for Oracle BI Publisher Running on Oracle WebLogic Server Enabling TLS Acceleration for Web Server and Web Client Communications Enabling TLS Acceleration for Web Server and Web Client Communications	Obsolete topics. These topics have moved to Siebel Reports Guide.
Appendix C, "Siebel Security Hardening"	New appendix. Describes Siebel Security Hardening implementation and administration. This information was formerly in Siebel Security Hardening Guide.