Security

Learn about the security aspects that you need to consider with regards to content search in WebSphere Portal v6.1.5.

• Search on Portal Search collections and other content sources

  Portal search collections are portal resources. You can therefore secure them through Portal Access Control. Consequently, users can only access and search collections to which they have access permission.

• Search on secured portal sites and pages and content management items

  For search on a secured local portal site, Portal Search provides a pre-configured search collection. You can also set up your own search collection for searching the portal site.

• Encrypte sensitive data

  When you create a new content source using the Manage Search portlet, some content sources require that you enter sensitive data, such as the user ID and password of the crawler user. This sensitive data is stored on the hard drive. Ensure that such sensitive data is encrypted on disk.

Parent topic:

Plan and preparing for Portal Search

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