1.5 Security and Privacy

Portability Suite provides several features to help you safeguard your data and increase security.

1.5.1 Security of the Workload Data Transfer

To make the transfer of your workload data more secure, Portability Suite allows you to:

  • Enable data transfer encryption for an individual conversion job. When encryption is enabled, over-the-network data transfer from the source to the target is encrypted by using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard).

  • Configure your Portability Suite Server to use a data encryption algorithm that is compliant with FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards, Publication 140-2).

If compliance with FIPS is required, it must be set up on your system prior to the Portability Suite Server installation. See Enabling Support for FIPS-Compliant Data Encryption Algorithms (Optional) in your Installation Guide.

For information on how to enable file encryption for a conversion job, see Specifying Transfer Options.

1.5.2 Security of Saved Credentials

Portability Suite products cache credentials in the Portability Suite Client user interface and securely store them by using operating system APIs. In addition, credentials are stored on the Portability Suite Server and the Portability Suite database, as well as embedded in conversion jobs.

Data transmission between the Portability Suite Server and the Portability Suite Client can be configured to use either HTTP (default) or HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol). To secure data transmission between the client and the server, enable SSL on your Portability Suite Server host and use HTTPS when specifying the server URL. See Connecting to a Portability Suite Server.

1.5.3 User Authorization and Authentication

Portability Suite provides a role-based user authorization and authentication mechanism. See Setting Up User Authorization and Authentication in your Configuration Guide.