PeopleSoft Security Overview
The
security approach used by PeopleSoft applications is designed for the internet.
It enables you to easily create and
maintain security definitions and to perform many maintenance tasks
programmatically.
PeopleSoft
Security Assignment Levels
A security
definition is a collection of related security attributes that you create using
the PeopleSoft PeopleTools
Security application. The PeopleSoft security definition types are:
• User
profiles.
• Roles.
• Permission
lists.
Levels
of Academic Structure Security
For
every user in your system, you can define academic structure access for any or
all of these levels:
•
Institution
•
Career
•
Program
•
Plan
System Processing Order
When
a user attempts to access a page, the system checks the following items in this
order:
1.
User's permission list (which is assigned to the user by means of a role).
2.
Security view for the component.
3.
User's academic structure security.
Campus
Community
The
PeopleSoft Campus Community application has an additional layer of security
setup that assigns access to:
•
3C groups.
•
Service indicators.
•
Demographic Data Access (DDA).
•
Student Groups.
•
Population Update Security.
•
Population Selection
3C
Groups
You
can select which 3C groups user IDs can view and update.
Service Indicators
You
can define which service indicators a user can access, as well as how each
service indicator can be used.
Demographic
Data Access (DDA)
With
DDA security, you can mask the appearance of national ID and birth date data in
search records and prompt
records and on the Bio/Demo Data and the Relationships pages if these pages
have display-only security.
To
apply DDA security, you define masking configurations for all primary
permission lists and assign a primary
permission list to each user ID as part of each user's profile.
Student
Groups
Student
groups enable you to define groups of similar students at a high level, such as
athletes, student body officers,
or honor students.
Population
Update Security
The
Population Update Security page is used to set user security for accessing
records to update using the Population
Selection update process.
Population
Selection
Population
Selection is a Campus Community functionality which allows user to select IDs
based on their own
criteria.
Recruiting
and Admissions
The
PeopleSoft Recruiting and Admissions application has an additional layer of
security setup that assigns access
to:
•
Recruiting and application centers.
•
Admissions actions.
•
Test IDs.
Recruiting
and Application Center Security
You
secure prospect data through the recruiting center, and you secure applicant
data through the application center.
Admission
Action Security
You
can determine and assign the admissions program actions that a user ID can
access.
Test
ID Security
User
ID-based security for test IDs now ensures that users access and process only
the test data for which they
have permission.
Student
Financials
In
PeopleSoft Student Financials, you can set security for:
•
SetIDs
•
Business units
•
Cashier offices
•
Item types
•
Institution sets
•
Companies
•
Origin IDs
•
Credit cards or checks
Levels
and Types of Security
For
each item, you can select no security, user ID security, or permission list
security.
Student
Records
The
PeopleSoft Student Records application has an additional layer of security
setup that assigns access to:
•
Enrollment access IDs and groups.
•
Self-service enrollment.
•
Program actions.
•
Transcript types.
