System Security and User Accounts

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The product provides security features designed to:

• Encrypt and authorize communications with servers and clients using certificates
• Restrict user access to items and features so that users only make use of those features for which they have been suitably trained
• Allocate security permissions quickly and with minimal effort.

Setting Up Geo SCADA

Please refer to the Security Hardening Guide in the Technical Guides page. This document takes you through the hardening steps for the Operating System and many aspects of Geo SCADA.

Setting Up Security Certificates

The guide and associated scripts attached below to this page are intended to help you set up certificates with a Geo SCADA system. This configuration will help servers to connect to each other with assurance of identity, and clients to connect to servers with that assurance too.

See below for the attachments.

Users and User Groups

You can allocate permissions to each User account and User Group. Every item in the database can have its own set of permissions, or can be set to inherit the permissions that have been set for a parent Group or a Group Instance. The default setting for every new database item is for that item to inherit the security permissions of its parent Group (the Group that contains the item, which is the System group if the item is not within a Group folder).

The permissions determine whether a user can access the features for an item, including configuration features, alarms, and controls. By allocating different permissions to different users and User Groups, you can restrict system activities. For example, you can restrict the configuration of security settings so that only users with system administration knowledge or training can access the Security window.

The permissions that you allocate on the Security window for a database item define which of the item's features are available to the defined users and User Groups.

Please refer to the F1 Help pages and also the links below for details.

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Unknown Error When Changing a User's Password

Geo SCADA Service User Account

User Logon Events after Server Restart

Differences Between English Locales

Defining Security Permissions

Why Home Pages may not Display When User Logs On

Configuring User Displays to Format Time Appropriately

Integrating Users with Windows Security

Releasing Exclusive Control

Disabling the SSL server Null cipher

CertGenerator.zip