ACS Authentication and Security Overview

Summary: In this lesson, students will learn ACS Authentication and Security through a series of lectures, demonstrations and knowledge checks. 

Audience: Beginning ACS System Administrators

Prerequisites:

• Familiarity of ACS
• Knowledge of XML

Duration: 1 hour

Important: You will have access to the course content for a full year from the date you enrolled. However, if you have a Virtual Machine assigned to the course, the VM will only be available for a total of 90 days from your enrollment. Ensure you complete all lab exercises within this 90 day window.

Objectives: Upon completion of this lesson you will:

• Become familiar with Alfresco Content Services authentication and security.
• Describe the Out of the Box security behavior of ACS.
• Describe how ACS mitigates Brute Force Attacks on password logins.
• Understand ACEs and ACLs
• Reconfigure ACS to use a different password hashing algorithm
• Configure ACS to encrypt properties. 

Access: You will have access to this content for 365 days from enrollment.

Outline:

• Overview
• ACS Security 
• ACLs and ACEs
• Brute Force Mitigation
• Cryptographic Password Hashing
• Property Encryption