HP B6960-96035 manual Users and user groups, Increased security for Data Protector users

4 Users and user groups

In this chapter

This chapter discusses Data Protector security, users, user groups, and user rights.

It is organized as follows:

“Increased security for Data Protector users” on page 183

“Users and user groups” on page 184

Increased security for Data Protector users

Data Protector provides advanced security functionality that prevents unauthorized backing up or restoring of data. Data Protector security involves hiding data from unauthorized users, data encoding, and restricted grouping of users according to their responsibilities.

This section describes security issues related to using Data Protector for backing up data, restoring data, or monitoring the progress of backup sessions.

Access to backed up data

Backing up and then restoring data is essentially the same as copying data. Therefore, it is important to restrict access to this data to authorized users only.

Data Protector provides the following user-related security:

•All users intent on using any of the Data Protector functionality must be configured as Data Protector users.

Visibility of backed up data

•Backed up data is hidden from other users, except the backup owner. Other users do not even see that data was backed up. For example, if the backup operator has configured a backup, only the backup operator or the system administrator

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