Security

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This section provides an understanding of GigaSpaces XAP Security, where it fits in the XAP architecture, which components can be secured, and how to configure and customize the security depending on your application security requirements. XAP Security provides comprehensive support for securing your data, services, or both. XAP provides a set of authorities granting privileged access to data, and for performing operations on services.

• Overview
  XAP Security provides comprehensive support for securing your data, services, or both. XAP provides a set of authorities granting privileged access to data, and for performing operations on services.

• Concepts
  Authentication, Encryption, Authenticity Validation, and Managing users and roles

• Authorities
  System, Grid, Space and Monitor authorities

• Configuration
  Configurations and defaults

• Directory Management
  User and Role directory API

• Default File Based
  The default file-based users/roles directory; Overview, Getting Started, Configuration, and Custom Extensions

• Securing Components
  XAP has security built over the major server component - GSA, GSM, GSC and also Processing Unit with Space data. This section explains how security relates to each component and the configurations needed to securing your application.

• Administration
  This section explains the administration tools for managing XAP. The GUI provides a handy management tool for managing the users and roles, and comprehensive manageability of the secured components in the system.

• Hello World example
  Securing the hello world example.

• Custom Security
  Customize security to meet your application requirements

• Spring Security Bridge
  Declarative Spring-based custom security bridge

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