Progress
Client Deployment
Guide
Maintaining Application Security
Progress provides two types of security: application security which prevents unauthorized users from running application procedures or accessing data in a database, and database file security which prevents unauthorized users from modifying or removing database files.
Progress provides four levels of security: compile-time security ensures that only authorized users can compile procedures that perform specific data accesses, run-time security ensures that only authorized users can run specific precompiled procedures, connection security ensures that only authorized users can connect to the database, and schema security ensures that only authorized users can modify table, field, and index definitions.
Progress also relies on security mechanisms at the operating system level to ensure that only authorized users access r-code procedure files, procedure library files, and database files.
This chapter provides information about the following topics:
For information about establishing and maintaining connection security, schema security, and database file security, see the Progress Database Administration Guide and Reference.
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