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Users should not be assigned privileges they do not need or do not have the skills to use safely. For example, a user with the ability to delete all records in a table in one operation can do considerable unintentional damage if they are not familiar enough with 

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's architecture.  Only trusted and trained users should be placed in the Admin group, as that group can make drastic changes to the structure and data of your system.

Use SSL and HTTPS

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When accessed as a SaaS service, Agiloft is available through HTTPS access only. If you install it on your own server, we strongly recommend that you also must make it available over HTTPS, even if it is being used behind the firewall. This protects information transferred over the network from being accessed by a malicious individual. Do not allow any access to 

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through standard HTTP.

Use SSL via HTTPS to secure web browser connections to the 

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 server. Using standard HTTP to connect to the 

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 server exposes passwords and potentially sensitive information to anyone able to monitor network traffic, and opens up additional methods of attack by intercepting its network traffic.To server. To connect to your web server using SSL you will need to configure it manually, as it is not configured with SSL by default. You will need to purchase or generate a server certificate that authenticates your server to the clients. This configuration differs depending on the host operating system and the web server software you use. The following resources may help:

• Securing Your Apache 2 Server with SSL
• Van's Apache SSL/TLS mini-HOWTO
• How to implement SSL in IIS

Even if you must allow access to some accounts through standard HTTP, ensure that HTTPS is used to access more sensitive accounts such as those in the Admin group or with login access to the  Admin Console.

Restrict Login Access to the the

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 Server

A root user on Unix/Linux or a user in the Administrators group in Windows can circumvent 

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 internal security by modifying program and data files or directly changing data in the database, including passwords. However, even an unprivileged user can circumvent security by using local web access to exploit some of the special debugging features of 

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 such as the JMX console, as shown below, that are not accessible to connections from outside the server.
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Restrict Services Accessible on the 

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 Server

Treat the 

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 server as you would any other sensitive server by only allowing connections essential for 

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 operation operation, such as HTTP and HTTPS, and administration, such as SSH for Unix/Linux, or Terminal Services for Windows. Additional services or applications which run on the same server machine, including other web applications, may potentially contain security holes which could lead to the compromise of of

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 data.

The default services installed with most recent Linux distributions are generally minimal. You should use the nmap tool to verify which ports are exposed on your server. For example:

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These are the TCP ports normally used by 

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