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Table of Contents
  • Overview
    • OpenEdge Core Business Services
      • Security services
        • Identity management
          • Authentication
          • Authorization
        • Connection and data security
          • Confidentiality
          • Integrity
          • Trust
        • Governance
      • Auditing
        • Run-time auditing
        • Audit trails
        • Common auditing approach
        • Audit policies
        • Audit security
        • Query and report audit data
        • Archive audit data
        • Enable or disable auditing
      • Transparent Data Encryption
      • Introduction to Dynamic Data Masking
        • Configure DDM
          • Database utilities for administering DDM
          • Dynamic data mask configurations
            • Default mask
            • Null mask
            • Literal mask
            • Partial mask
          • Authorization tags
        • Get started with DDM
  • Security
    • Security in OpenEdge
      • Application development
        • ABL applications
        • Open Client applications
      • Application deployment
        • Encoding prefix
        • Secure source code
        • Secure compiled OpenEdge code
        • WebClient applications
        • Application portability
      • Data management
        • OpenEdge levels of data security
        • Database security
        • DataServer security
      • Application feature authorization
        • ABL run-time procedure authorization
      • PAS for OpenEdge security features
        • Application security
        • Security for OpenEdge Web services
        • Consume external web services in ABL
        • Data privacy for client connections to PAS for OpenEdge
        • Firewall compatibility
      • Integration service security features
      • Application network security using TLS
      • Secure auditing
      • Core user authentication and authorization
        • Configure OpenEdge security domains in an OpenEdge RDBMS
        • Create user IDs in the OpenEdge RDBMS _User table
        • Authenticate and authorize a user ID
        • Assert a user ID validated using SSO
      • TLS Security
        • Change cryptographic protocol, ciphers, and certificates
          • TLS libraries supported in OpenEdge
          • Supported protocols, ciphers, and certificates for OpenEdge clients and servers
          • Change the default protocols and ciphers
            • Change the default protocols and ciphers for Progress OpenEdge clients
            • Change the default protocols and ciphers for Progress OpenEdge servers
      • Add Server Name Indication (SNI)
      • Secure the Tomcat Manager and OpenEdge Manager web applications
      • ESAM
        • Change the global policy
        • Change an installation-level policy
          • POLMAN
        • Troubleshoot ESAM issues
          • Installation issues
          • ESAM loads in anonymous mode unexpectedly
        • Synchronize ESAM-managed OpenEdge installations
          • Unregister an ESAM-managed OpenEdge installation
          • Register an ESAM-managed OpenEdge installation
        • Valid uses of anonymous mode
      • OpenSSL 3.5 in OpenEdge
    • Cryptography
      • Basic cryptography
        • Algorithms
        • Keys
        • Entropy
      • Symmetric (secret) key cryptography
        • Encryption/decryption algorithms
        • Encryption/decryption modes
        • Encryption/decryption key size
        • Combine algorithm, mode, and key size
        • OpenEdge usage
      • Password-based encryption (PBE)
        • PBE algorithms
        • OpenEdge usage
      • Asymmetric (public) key cryptography
        • Asymmetric keys
        • Public-key algorithms
        • OpenEdge usage
      • Message digests
        • Message digest algorithms
        • OpenEdge usage
      • Manage cryptographic data
        • Objectives
        • Requirements
        • OpenEdge solutions
    • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
      • Core security services in a PKI
        • Authentication
        • Confidentiality
        • Integrity
      • Cryptography in a PKI
        • Symmetric-key cryptography
        • Message digests and MACs
        • Public-key cryptography
        • Password-based encryption (PBE)
      • Trust relationships and supporting mechanisms
        • PKI trust model
        • Digital certificates and certificate store
          • Add a wildcard character to a public key certificate
          • Add Subject Alternative Name (SAN) to a digital certificate
        • Digital signatures
        • Client and server interactions
        • Key and certificate management
          • Server identity management
          • Client certificate management
          • Digital certificate life-cycle management
    • Transport Layer Security (TLS)
      • TLS standards support in OpenEdge
      • Support for trust
      • TLS interactions and the user
    • TLS in OpenEdge
      • OpenEdge TLS client and server components
      • Use TLS in OpenEdge
      • Manage TLS server identity
        • Establish TLS server identity
        • Use the default TLS server identity
        • Manage your own TLS server identity
      • Configure and run TLS sessions
        • Configure TLS server sessions
        • Configure TLS client sessions
        • Access an TLS server's X.500 Subject Name
    • FIPS mode
      • Identify requirements
      • Limitations
      • Restrictions
      • Check FIPS mode
      • Use FIPS mode
        • Before enabling FIPS mode
          • Prepare databases
          • Stop OpenEdge DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server
          • Prepare PAS for OpenEdge instances
          • Prepare applications
            • Update ABL cryptography code to use FIPS mode
            • FIPS support with Java Open Client in OpenEdge applications
        • Change FIPS mode
        • After enabling FIPS mode
      • Troubleshoot issues
  • Auditing
    • Auditing in OpenEdge
      • OpenEdge auditing
        • What you can audit
          • Audit database events
          • Audit internal system events
          • Audit application events
      • Evaluate your auditing requirements
        • Application developer decisions
        • End user responsibilities
      • OpenEdge auditing recommendations
      • Audit data storage management
    • Secure audit data
      • Overview
        • Assert user identity
        • Add security through separation of duty
      • Manage audit privileges
        • Inherit audit privileges: the security administrator
        • Assign audit security privileges
        • Create a primary and a secondary audit administrator
        • Grant audit privileges
          • Grant audit privileges in ABL
          • Grant audit privileges in SQL
        • Revoke audit privileges
      • Audit data archival security
        • Authenticate archival of audit data
      • Audit security for database clients, tools, and utilities
      • Audit security for OpenEdge databases
      • Audit policy security
        • Seal audit data
        • Resolve audit policy conflicts
        • Export audit policy configuration as an XML file
      • Choose additional audit options
      • Configure additional user authentication systems and domains
      • Control the user ID and the login sessions in audit data records
      • Long-term storage of audit data
        • Archive audit data
      • Assign a unique ID to a database
    • Configure OpenEdge auditing
      • Tasks to configure auditing
        • Enable an OpenEdge database for auditing
        • Connect to the database and assign audit-related privileges
        • Create audit policies using Audit Policy Maintenance
      • Set up OpenEdge auditing context
        • Audit context levels
          • Database transaction context
          • Audit-event group
          • Application context
          • User login session context
        • Record auditing context information
        • How auditing context is referenced by audit event records
        • Add auditing context to the application
      • Manage auditing context
      • Migrate an existing application to use auditing
    • Develop an OpenEdge application enabled for auditing
      • Develop an application enabled for auditing
        • Enable an OpenEdge database for auditing
        • Define application audit events
      • Enable your OpenEdge application for auditing
        • Implement additional auditing options
          • Supply OpenEdge application context information
          • Support user accounts outside of the _User table
          • Use a dedicated OpenEdge database for auditing
          • Set up READ auditing
          • Use a custom audit data and policy archive tool
          • Bootstrap the audit administrator user
          • Create audit policy and report templates
          • Support custom audit policy tools
        • Update an existing ABL application with auditing
        • Enable your SQL application for auditing
    • Deploy an OpenEdge application enabled for auditing
      • Overview
        • Develop the company's audit policy
          • Configure long-term audit data storage
          • Not all databases are enabled for auditing
      • Configure auditing at the production site
        • Set up audit administration
        • Load audit event definitions
        • Load predefined audit policies
        • Set up audit data access
      • Apply audit policy for production systems
      • Write custom audit reports
      • Prepare to deploy your application enabled for auditing
      • Upgrade an existing application to use auditing
    • Maintain audit data
      • Common audit data maintenance tasks
        • Back up and restore a database enabled for auditing
        • Archive and load audit tables
        • Copy a database enabled for auditing
        • Recover audit data
        • Modify the indexes generated for OpenEdge audit tables
        • Modify the audit table storage area
        • Disable auditing
        • Handle long-term storage growth
        • Return audit data from offline storage
        • Ensure audit data integrity
      • Optimize auditing performance
      • Run-time audit maintenance
        • Monitor the health of your databases
        • Query audit data
    • Query and Report Audit Data
      • Audit data schema overview
      • Audit data querying and reporting
        • Report committed data only
        • Internationalization considerations
        • Report on a central archive database
        • Report on a single database with multiple GUIDs
        • Report from multiple audit databases
        • Deactivated audit indexes
        • Report event descriptions
        • Optional client session information
        • Audit data event context
        • Audit data application context
        • Logically group related audit data in an audit event group
        • Group audit data by transaction ID
        • Group audit data by database connection
        • Report additional audit event details
        • Report by audit date and time
        • Report by user ID
        • Report modified field old/new values
        • Identify database events
        • Internal audit event policies
        • Efficient index use
        • Query guidelines
      • Report on audit data with prefiltered and custom reports
      • Generate a custom filtered report
  • Transparent Data Encryption
    • Transparent Data Encryption in OpenEdge RDBMS
      • Define the problem space
        • Provide data privacy
      • Define Transparent Data Encryption
      • Data security
        • Data storage
        • Encrypted data configuration
        • Encryption key
      • Before you start
      • What is encryptable
        • Data considerations
      • Transparent Data Encryption feature summary
      • Enable encryption
        • Add an encryption area
        • Execute the ENABLEENCRYPTION command
    • OpenEdge Keystore
      • General keystore basics
      • OpenEdge keystore
      • Configure keystore access
        • Manual start
        • Autostart
      • Keystore maintenance
        • Backups
        • Modify passphrases
        • Rebind
        • Keystore reconstruct
    • Configure Transparent Data Encryption policies
      • Create encryption policies
        • Create encryption policies with PROUTIL EPOLICY
        • Create encryption policies with the Data Administration tool
      • Encrypt your existing data
        • EPOLICY MANAGE UPDATE example
        • Encryption of new data
      • Maintain transparent data encryption
        • Rekey encryption policies with the Data Administration tool
        • Rekey an encryption policy with PROUTIL EPOLICY
        • Change the cipher of an encryption policy with PROUTIL EPOLICY
        • View encryption policy history in the Data Administration tool
      • OpenEdge SQL support for transparent data encryption
        • Use the CREATE TABLE statement
        • Add an encrypted column
        • Use the CREATE INDEX statement
        • Use the ALTER TABLE statement
        • View encryption policy with the SHOW ENCRYPT statement
        • Delete encrypted objects with OpenEdge SQL
      • Disable encryption
  • Audit data tables
    • Audit data table schema
  • Preconfigured audit policies
    • Use preconfigured OpenEdge audit policies
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  • Last Updated: February 11, 2026
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    • OpenEdge
    • Version 13.0
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Security features for application deployment include the following.

Contents
  • Encoding prefix
  • Secure source code
  • Secure compiled OpenEdge code
  • WebClient applications
  • Application portability
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