Why PeopleSoft
Security?
Peoplesoft is a client server application suite based on client server architecture. It is similar to other ERP systems, which connects to RDBMS as backend, and that can be Oracle , IBM DB2, Informix, Sybase, SQL Server etc, based on client environment.
Since Peoplesoft HRMS is a productive product suite, Security is mandatory , as the data mainly deals with personal information such as SSN, credit card etc, So there should be sufficient provision of security towards the data accesses.
All users are not exposed and given the same access towards the application and only authorized user have the access to application servers. All this things are handled by security principles defined with the help of peoplesoft security.
The PeopleSoft Internet Architecture falls into the category of PeopleSoft online security, also known as runtime security, which means that only authorized users can connect to the web and application servers, and only authorized application servers can connect to a backend database.
PeopleSoft
Security
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PeopleSoft security approach is tailored specially for
the internet. PeopleTool Security enables provision of security to all of
the users of PeopleSoft system.
Using the Definition Security People Tool we can restrict
access to the objects developers created in PeopleSoft Application
Designer.
Below are some terms Used while
implementing Peoplesoft Security
USER ID -
Enables access to system.
-
Authenticates, Authorizes.
ROLE - A named set of work that a
user can do.
- Works in conjunction with Workflow.
- Comprised of “1 or more” Permission Lists.
PERMISSION
LIST - Defines the pages to which the employee
is authorized to gain access.
Different types
of Security
Sign on and Time-out Security:-
User is asked to enter User ID and a
password on the PeopleSoft Sign on page also called as PIA page, when signing into PeopleSoft. For a
valid userid ID and password, PeopleSoft connects the user to the application and the
system retrieves the appropriate user profile. When a user signs on, they are
connected as long as their sign on time allows and as long as their browser
doesn’t sit idle for longer than their time-out interval is met.
Page and Dialog Security:-
Page and
Dialog Security is used for granting access to PeopleSoft menus, Users can be
controlled from accessing the data with the help of Peopletool Security.
Batch Environment Security:-
For running a
batch Processes from PeopleSoft Process Scheduler, appropriate Process Profile
to the User Profile should be assigned along with proper process groups.
Each batch
program has a run control that we define before we can run the batch program.
Definition Security:-
For
restricting the access of application developers, a separate People tool called
‘Definition Security’ is used , which can be used to govern access to the Record
definitions, Field definitions, but Page definitions as well.
Application Data Security:-
Definition
Security is a type of data security- which is used to control access to
object definitions in the People tool tables. We can set data permissions at
the following levels:
Ø Query/Table-Level Security:- Query/Table Level
Security helps us to build SQL queries
to
retrieve information from application tables.
Ø Row-Level Security:- Row Security Permission list is used to define
data security to users.
Ø Field Security:- We can restrict the access to particular
fields or columns within our
application tables by using People code.
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