ClearPath Forward Fabric is equipped to provide common and consistent security management and policies.
ClearPath Forward Fabric provides the following security features:
Identity Management – Role-based access control is implemented using the Fabric Manager. This limits the user’s ability to make configuration changes and limits their ability to control the behavior of the fabric which is defined by their designated role. This is achieved through
Identification – Uniquely identifying each user as a member of a role.
Authentication – Ensuring the validity of the user’s identity.
Authorization – Limiting the scope of the user’s permitted activities, such as access to various system resources, actions that the user can perform on various system resources, and so on.
Validation – Validation of the user identity and authorizations.
Audit – Information systems are audited for compliance, regulations, and so on. Information such as time stamp, user identity, and severity of the event are critical for auditing. Fabric Manager tracks and logs all the actions and events such as adding and deleting configuration settings, communication failures, and login attempts that are carried out within the fabric.
Network Security – The entire fabric, including platforms and partitions, is protected from both internal and external threats. Network security policies, configurations, and processes are managed centrally and applied consistently across the fabric. This includes
Confidentiality – Ensuring that only the intended recipient can read the data.
Integrity – Ensuring that the data is not modified in-motion.
Non-repudiability – Ensuring that the sender of the data cannot claim not sending it.
Intrusion detection and prevention – Detecting and preventing unauthorized access through the network.
Exfiltration detection and prevention – Detecting and or preventing the movement of data from the secure network to a non-secure network.