1. Securing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality
  2. About EDQ Security
  3. Terms Used in this Guide

Terms Used in this Guide

The following terms are used in this guide:

  • AD – Active Directory

  • Certificate – Generally refers to an X.509 certificate

  • Kerberos – Network authentication protocol

  • LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

  • OID – Oracle Internet Directory

  • OPSS - Oracle Platform Security Services

  • SSL – Security Sockets Layer, a protocol for encrypted connections over which application traffic can be transported. Replaced by TLS, although SSL is still used as a generic term.

  • TLS – Transport Layer Security, a successor to SSL.

  • WLS – WebLogic Server

  • X.509 Certificate – A certificate issued by a trusted authority (certificate authority) to certify that a specified entity (individual, organization, server, or other entity) holds the matching private key for a public key.