1. Security Guide
  2. Deploying Siebel Open UI

Deploying Siebel Open UI

You can optionally deploy Siebel CRM using the Siebel Open UI. Siebel Open UI is the most secure Siebel CRM client available and is therefore recommended if your Siebel implementation has high-security requirements.

Siebel Open UI has the following characteristics:

  • Limited attack surface. Siebel Open UI uses only three technologies to render the client code: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Because of the small set of underlying technologies that are used to render the client and the absence of third-party plug-ins such as ActiveX and Java, Siebel Open UI provides the smallest possible attack surface.

  • Transparent technology. Because the Siebel Open UI client is built entirely on standards, a variety of modern inspection tools can be used to validate the security compliance of your implementations.

  • Compatibility with Data Execution Prevention features and virtualization. Because the Siebel Open UI client is a scripted client, it is fully compatible with Data Execution Prevention features for software or hardware, and compatible with virtualization features.

  • Siebel Open UI clients enforce session security by requiring that session IDs can only be passed in session cookies. Siebel Open UI clients do not support cookieless mode.

For additional information about Siebel Open UI, see Deploying Siebel Open UI and Configuring Siebel Open UI.