Configuring security

Web Services adheres to the standards described in the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top 10 — see the OWASP website for details about the Top 10 — and has adopted several methods of ensuring security, for example:

• Errors are logged locally to prevent information leakage through API requests.
• User sessions have a timeout option.
• Cross Site Request Forgery Protection

Web Services includes additional security configurations that you can use with your installation:

• Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication
• Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) filter

For details about how Web Services handles authentication, see Web Services authentication flow.

Next step

• Starting and stopping Web Services and Applications