Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Securing your environment on Windows

After installing IBM^® WebSphere^® Portal Express and configuring your user registry, there are additional security tasks that you can run to ensure the security of your environment.

• Enabling step-up authentication and/or the Remember me cookie
  Step-up authentication provides authentication levels for pages and portlets. The Remember me cookie is an encrypted HTTP cookie that supports state-of-the-art authentication, which allows you to present personalized portlets and pages in a pubic area without asking the user to manually authenticate. Together, these two features allow remembered users to view anonymous pages and portlets with a standard or identified authentication level; if the level is set to authenticated, the user will have to provide a user ID and password to view the page or portlet.
• Deploying portlets in a secure environment on Windows
  IBM WebSphere Portal Express provides two user authentication modes that the Portlet Deployment Manager can use to authenticate with the IBM WebSphere Application Server administrative services when security is enabled.
• Disabling step-up authentication and/or the Remember me cookie
  You can disable the step-up authentication task and/or the Remember me cookie task to remove the features from your system.