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CA Risk Authentication Server is the primary component that you must install. The server provides the risk evaluation service, which includes transaction risk evaluation. Your applications that must use CA Risk Authentication Server can integrate with it by using Java SDKs or web services shipped with it.

CA Risk Authentication also requires an SQL database for storing server configuration data, user-specific preferences, and usage data.

Typically, all CA Risk Authentication components are installed on a single system. However, in production deployments and staging environments, you install CA Risk Authentication Server on the same system. The shipped SDKs or web services are installed on a different system or systems that contain the application that users log in to.

CA Risk Authentication is also shipped with a Sample Application, which can be used to verify if CA Risk Authentication was installed properly; and to perform risk evaluation. Sample Application also serves as a code sample for integrating CA Risk Authentication with the existing applications.

CA Risk Authentication supports the following deployment scenarios: