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Perform tasks to secure your data on the Spectrum Technology Platform2022.1.0.
Implementing Spectrum Single Sign-on (SSO)
Spectrum Technology Platform provides single sign-on (SSO), leveraging Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Ping Identity, and Azure Identity Provider (IDP).
Mapping LDAP/SSO roles to Spectrum Technology Platform roles
Before mapping roles, ensure that you have enabled LDAP/SSO authentication.

Welcome
Perform administrative tasks required to manage the operation of Spectrum Technology Platform on your system.
Getting Started
Configure and run a new installation of Spectrum Technology Platform.
Approval Flows
Define approval flows that data stewards use to review and accept records generated in a job by Exception Monitor.
Security
Perform tasks to secure your data on the Spectrum Technology Platform2022.1.0.
- Security Model
  Spectrum Technology Platform uses a role-based security model to control access to the system.
- Users
  Spectrum Technology Platform user accounts control the types of actions users can perform on the system.
- Roles
  Spectrum Technology Platform comes with these some predefined roles.
- Access Control
  Access control settings work in conjunction with roles to define the permissions for a user. Roles define the permissions for categories of entities, such as all dataflows or all database resources, and access control settings define the permissions for specific entities, called secured entities. Examples of secured entities include specific jobs or specific database connections. For example, you may have a role that has granted the Modify permission to the secured entity type "Dataflows", but you may want to prevent users from modifying one specific dataflow. You could accomplish this by using access control to remove the Modify permission for the specific dataflow you do not want modified. You can specify access control settings for users and roles. Access control settings for a user override that specific user's permissions as granted by the user's roles. Access control settings for roles apply to all users who have that role.
- Security for Spatial
- Limiting Server Directory Access
  You can browse the Spectrum Technology Platform server's folders when performing tasks that require them to select a file. For example, users can browse the server when selecting an input or output file in a source or sink stage in Spectrum Enterprise Designer.
- Using HTTPS
  Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that provides security for communications between client and server by implementing encrypted data and certificate-based authentication.
- Web Service Authentication
  Spectrum Technology Platform web services require authentication with valid user credentials. There are two methods for authenticating: Basic authentication and authentication by token.
- Using LDAP or Active Directory for Authentication
  Spectrum Technology Platform can be configured to use an LDAP or Active Directory server for authentication.
- Implementing Spectrum Single Sign-on (SSO)
  Spectrum Technology Platform provides single sign-on (SSO), leveraging Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Ping Identity, and Azure Identity Provider (IDP).
  - Configuration assumptions and SSO deployment checks
    We have designed Spectrum SSO to be seamless to end-users. To facilitate this seamless implementation, before you implement SSO, ensure that some specific security features are in place.
  - Server configurations for authentication support
    Spectrum Technology Platform requires you to define specific server-side properties and entities to support SSO authentication through IdP—Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Ping Identity, or Azure Identity Provider (IDP).
  - SSO in a clustered configuration
    As part of the setup of SSO in a clustered environment, you must first have your clustering configuration in place.
  - Managing and mapping roles and properties
    Spectrum SSO conveniently maps user accounts to admin-assigned credentials.
  - Mapping LDAP/SSO roles to Spectrum Technology Platform roles
    Before mapping roles, ensure that you have enabled LDAP/SSO authentication.
- Encryption
Data Sources
Configure data sources from which to load and process data in Spectrum Technology Platform2022.1.0.
Spectrum Databases
Manage databases that contain data from trusted data providers. These include databases used by Enterprise Tax, Geocoding, Global Sentry, Universal Addressing, Spatial and Routing.
Services
Access Spectrum Services through a REST or SOAP web service interface.
Flows
Schedule and manage job execution, options, and defaults.
Performance
Perform tasks to get optimal performance from your Spectrum Technology Platform environment.
Monitoring
Monitor system performance and configure notification and use system and audit logs.
Backup and Restore
Schedule or create backups and restore the Spectrum Technology Platform server.
Settings
View and configure Data Stewardship and Context Graph settings.
Administration Utility
Use the Administration Utility Command Line Interface (CLI) to manage Spectrum components and data.
Spectrum properties
Reference information for spectrum-container.properties properties and proxy server settings.
About Spectrum Technology Platform
An overview of Spectrum, its data management architecture, its platform architecture, and its modules and components.

Mapping LDAP/SSO roles to Spectrum Technology Platform roles

Before mapping roles, ensure that you have enabled LDAP/SSO authentication.

Note: We have verified identity providers AD FS and Ping Identity for Spectrum Technology Platform.

When you configure Spectrum Technology Platform to use LDAP/SSO for authentication, by default, the role values must match the Spectrum Technology Platform role names, exactly in order, to grant the role. For example, to grant the designer role, the role you specify must be "designer."

Note: If you are using Spectrum Spatial, you must also update the Jackrabbit configuration file. For more information see Using LDAP or Active Directory for Authentication.

You can map non-matching LDAP/SSO role values to an existing Spectrum Technology Platform role name. You can also map an LDAP/SSO role value with the same name as a Spectrum Technology Platform role to a different role. For example, one of the built-in roles is "designer." If you have an LDAP/SSO role value that is also named "designer," but you want it to map to another role, you could create a role map.

To map an LDAP/SSO role value to an existing Spectrum role:

Open a Web browser and go to http://server:port/jmx-console, where:
- server is the IP address or host name of your Spectrum Technology Platform server.
- port is the HTTP port used by Spectrum Technology Platform. The default is 8080.
Select this property:
com.pb.spectrum.platform.common.security.role:mappings=RoleMappings

This property is visible only when you enable LDAP or LDAP/SSO authentication, and the Spectrum Technology Platform server is fully started.
In the addMapping section, configure these settings:
1. In the value field, enter the LDAP/SSO role value to map to a Spectrum Technology Platform role.
2. In the roleName field, enter the Spectrum Technology Platform role to map to the LDAP attribute value.
Click Invoke.

Users who have been assigned an LDAP/SSO role will now be granted the role you specified for them the next time they log in to Spectrum Technology Platform.

To remove a mapping, enter the LDAP attribute you want to unmap in the value field in the removeMapping section in Spectrum JMX console.