Overview

Use the Security Console to manage application security in your Oracle Applications Cloud service. You can do tasks related to role management, role analysis, user account management, and certificate management.

Security Console Access

You must have the IT Security Manager role to use the Security Console. This role inherits the Security Management and Security Reporting duty roles.

Security Console Tasks

You can do these tasks on the Security Console:

• Roles

  • Create job, abstract, and duty roles.

  • Edit custom roles.

  • Copy roles.

  • Compare roles.

  • Visualize role hierarchies and assignments to users.

  • Review Navigator menu items available to roles or users.

  • Identify roles that grant access to Navigator menu items and privileges required for that access.

• Users

  • Create user accounts.

  • Review, edit, lock, or delete existing user accounts.

  • Assign roles to user accounts.

  • Reset users' passwords.

• Analytics

  • Review statistics of role categories, the roles belonging to each category, and the components of each role.

  • View the data security policies, roles, and users associated with each data resource.

• Certificates

  • Generate, export, or import PGP or X.509 certificates, which establish encryption keys for data exchanged between Oracle Cloud applications and other applications.

  • Generate signing requests for X.509 certificates.

• Administration

  • Establish rules for the generation of user names.

  • Set password policies.

  • Create standards for role definition, copying, and visualization.

  • Review the status of role-copy operations.

  • Define templates for notifications of user account events, such as password expiration.