Maintaining Security › Authentication

Authentication

Authentication is the process of obtaining identification credentials from a user such as name and password to validate their credentials to verify that the user exists. If the credentials are valid, the user is authenticated. After a user is authenticated, the authorization process determines whether the user can log in to the product.

Note: CA APM uses CA EEM to process user authentication.

The following types of authentication are supported:

• Form Authentication. A user is prompted for a user name and password to log in to the product.

  Note: Form authentication is the default authentication type.

• Windows Integrated Authentication. A user already logged in to the Windows domain can access the product without having to provide additional login credentials.

Note: You can provide additional security by defining tab and menu configuration in the product to restrict the pages and tabs that a user can access.

More information:

Single Sign-On