Some Security Basics
We'll use the term administrator to refer to anyone who's responsible for managing a company's data and who can access that data. For our purposes, administrators includes a wide variety of IT professionals, from those who define roles in the CIC Analytics application to those who manage company servers.
An end user is anyone who uses CIC Analytics to do their job. This includes project managers, executives, and everyone else who logs into CIC Analytics from an office or jobsite to get their work done.
Administrators should...
- Set up Single Sign-On (SSO) and enable multi-factor authentication to minimize the number of passwords that users have to remember and to consolidate risk.
- Kindly educate users on how they can avoid unwittingly helping hackers. One of the best ways application administrators and security advocates can help users is by helping them to prevent security breaches.
- Use a VPN to encrypt data being sent over the internet.
- Stay up-to-date about security trends and best practices.
End users should...
- Follow security guidelines created by their companies and the administrators of any network applications they use.
- Use strong passwords. The more random-looking the better.Avoid reusing passwords to reduce the risk of intruders gaining access through exploitation of user accounts.
- Learn to recognize phishing. Phishing is when someone disguises an email or some other transmission as a legitimate message in an attempt to get a user to reveal sensitive information. For example, a hacker may send you an email disguised to look like an email from your employer requesting login information. These attacks are becoming more sophisticated, but you can still protect yourself by making sure any emails you receive or websites you visit are legitimate before using them to share sensitive information.
For more details, refer to the Privacy and Security Feature Guidance information for Construction Intelligence Cloud Service in the Industry Solutions (GBUs) section of Privacy and Security Feature Guidance for all Oracle Services Doc ID 114.2.
Last Published Friday, December 8, 2023