IB2 content management security incorporates HTTPS connections to ensure secure use of the system.  A second level of security is achieved with optional database encryption utilizing private key infrastructure (PKI). 

IB2 content management security is flexible in its implementation and use, allowing it to meet different organizations’ needs – this includes role, group and inheritance features, all described below.  Because organizations and companies are differ in staff size and internal structure (i.e., different departments), InsightBuilder® allows administrators to control access as deeply as the individual document level, or as broadly as across an entire site. 

User actions are also controlled and can be specified based on functional or departmental groups, or individually for specific users.  For example, one can permit a department’s staff to read and edit specific directories or specific file types on one server, while then allowing only read access to the same directories on another server. This example demonstrates how an administrator might prevent one department from editing the content of another, or prevent misplacement of files by new employees.

Most organizations will never require the extensive flexibility offered by IB2, but its presence assures you that should your needs changes, IB2 can adapt

The diagram shown here visually illustrates IB2’s security flexibility in managing users’ actions on documents based on their organizational role.  The diagram depicts two different types of documents, news and events, as well as several user groups. 
Both types of documents have three possible actions that users can perform: “read”, “write”, and “administer.”  Each of these three types of permissions is first assigned to a group.  The members of each group “inherit” those permissions because of their group membership.  Thus a user of Group 3 can write the “event” document.

One can assign a user to more than one group.  These overlapping permissions allow the administrator to create departmental groups (e.g., marketing, technical, training) as well as functional groups (e.g., editors, writers, translators) whose overlapping functions in an organization are reflected in their access privileges in IB2.