Magnify offers an optional feature to protect your enterprise data by filtering search results based on access permissions (authentication) and security rules (authorization). Magnify security allows you to control the information that is available to specific Magnify users. For example, a typical enterprise includes several departments, such as, Human Resources, Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Corporate. The CEO requires access to all information in the enterprise, while employees in Sales, Finance, and Marketing would need restrictions on what, if any, information they can access from Human Resources.

The security feature is available to Magnify when using either the GSA or the Lucene search engine, though it is implemented in different ways.

• Magnify with the GSA security implementation uses WebFOCUS Managed Reporting Comprehensive User Services.
• Magnify with the Lucene security implementation involves one or more user-written Security plug-ins that define and enforce security rules that allow you to integrate with your existing security framework.

The following sections explain how to set up Magnify security for both the GSA and Lucene scenarios.