Security Attributes fundamentals

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • A Security Attribute is a highly configurable piece of information about a Subject or its Environment. When used in access controls, they enable fine grain security configuration in a non-complex way.

    Security Attributes offer an alternative method for access control via role definitions to currently practiced ACL(Access Control Lists) configuration. Security Attributes offer several advantages to ACL-based configurations:
    Better security
    Improved permissions evaluation obfuscation ensures that your organization remains secure.
    Human readable
    Security Attributes are designed to simplify the creation and ease of use of security permissions.
    Flexible security
    Build persona definitions from both Out-of-Box configuration in combination with customer defined personas.
    Logging and auditing
    Security Attributes offer detailed auditing and logging to give more insight to security measures and theory.