Introduction

Document security protects the information that you index into IDOL.

Your organization is likely to store information in many repositories. Many of these repositories have security features so that files and data can be viewed only by authorized personnel. Document security ensures that when you index information into an IDOL index, these permissions continue to be enforced. In response to a query, IDOL returns only documents that a user is permitted to view.

So that the IDOL Content component can protect your data, connectors must add an Access Control List (ACL) to a metadata field in each document. The ACL contains information about which users and groups are permitted to access the document. In most cases you configure the connector to generate ACLs and add them to documents by setting a parameter named Mapped Security.

A user might be allowed or denied permission to view a document because they are a member of a security group (for example a group in your LDAP directory). This means that IDOL must consider group memberships in order to evaluate an ACL and determine whether a user can view a document.

Group information is extracted in the following ways:

For more information about document security, including how to configure IDOL Content and IDOL Community, refer to the IDOL Document Security Administration Guide.