Product Overview and Security Features

This document describes guidelines to ensure security within the components of TIBCO ActiveSpaces and the communication between them. It also provides additional security-related guidance and recommendations for other aspects of internal and external communication. In particular, this document provides details of product connectivity and configuration of security options.

TIBCO ActiveSpaces software includes the following security features that are layered above the TIBCO® FTL security features:
  • Every data grid can be configured to encrypt connections
  • Every process has authentication and trust file options
TIBCO ActiveSpaces software leverages TIBCO FTL for the following security features:
  • Secure transports for communication among data grid processes and the communication between applications and the data grid processes
  • TLS to secure TCP transports
  • HTTPS to secure connections to the TIBCO FTL server
  • Authentication and authorization service

For more information about TIBCO FTL security features, see TIBCO FTL Security.