Overview of TIBCO® Security Server

The TIBCO® Security Server hosts all the services that are needed to support a wide range of security requirements regarding authentication, data integrity, data confidentiality, credentials, and single sign on.

The TIBCO Security Server currently hosts two types of services:
  1. Credential Authority Service
  2. Resource Manager Service
Credential Authority Service
The Credential Authority Service issues credentials needed to establish SSL connections and digitally sign and/or encrypt documents by automatically responding to authorized Certificate Signing Requests (CSR) coming from all products exposed to TIBCO® Enterprise Administrator in an enterprise.
Resource Manager Service
Use the Resource Manager Service to manage the security resource configuration objects needed across the products exposed to TIBCO Enterprise Administrator (TEA) in an enterprise. There are three types of resource configuration objects:
  1. Credential configuration
  2. Identity configuration
  3. Authentication configuration
The Resource Manager Service supports the following activities, among others:
  1. Create an SSL server socket
  2. Create an SSL client connection
  3. Safekeeping login credentials
  4. Sign/encrypt a document
  5. Authenticate a user's credentials
  6. Support SSO between web applications
  7. Authenticate SOAP requests
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