Security Features

Encryption, SSL secure communication, authentication, and authorization features help to secure the distributed system.

The features include:

  • A single security interface for all components. The single authentication and authorization mechanism simplifies the security implementation. It views and interacts with all components in a consistent manner.
  • System-wide role-based access control. Roles regiment authorized operations requested by the various components.
  • SSL communication. Allows configuration of connections to be SSL-based, rather than plain socket connections. You can enable SSL separately for peer-to-peer, client, JMX, gateway senders and receivers, and HTTP connections.
  • Post processing of region data. Return values for operations that return region values may be altered, permitting the filtering of returned data.