FOUNDATION Device Security Managing Access to Information To effectively manage your information resources, Foundation provides a robust facility for defining, managing, and analyzing your on-line device population, helping you: Control when and how information is accessed. Understand how your enterprise application resources are used. Analyze your device population. Administer devices by accessing information easily and quickly. Device Capabilities The Security facility provides the following capabilities in both OLTP and Client/Server applications: Defines and describes each individual device. Validates device access. Identifies what applications and application components each device can access. Monitors application usage. Provides on-line tools to modify and analyze device information. Supports convenient device group definitions and mass update features. Device Security A process and/or access to specific information can also be restricted to access from a specific device (typically in a protected location). Furthermore, access can be restricted to specific days of the week and times of the day. Devices, like users, can be restricted to accessing specific data and specific processes. A device can then be scheduled for periods of up-time and down-time. Device groups can be defined, making it easy to manage devices by location or function or along any other meaningful administrative boundary. Usage Analysis Usage analysis information helps administrators, operations personnel, and development managers to fine tune the enterprise information base. In addition to the obvious security interests, understanding an application's usage patterns allows both operators and engineers to focus on making performance improvements where they are most needed. Studying how and when an application is used may also surface correctable business process issues. Foundation provides on-line tools to analyze which devices are sanctioned to access various resources. One can review all devices sanctioned to access a named process, or list all of the devices assigned to a given administrative group. Any combination of these and other characteristics can be used to evaluate how the device population is defined, and how these individuals and groups of individuals could best access enterprise information to increase productivity. Tasks In addition to defining and maintaining individual devices and administrative groupings, Foundation also provides for single action, mass updates of large population groups. This makes it easy to add, modify, replace, or delete an application feature that impacts many devices. When a new business process is released to replace or augment some existing process, a simple, single action is all that is required to provide this new feature to all of the devices already sanctioned to access the original process. Individual exceptions can always be made.   © Menlo Business Systems, Inc. 2004