Infor Security Services: Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Infor Security Services product.

Note: You might see the product name "Lawson Security Services" in both the product and in some documentation. This is another (older) name for the same product.

Infor Security Services is a web-based tool used to:

Maintain the authorizations to Infor Lawson Enterprise applications or Landmark-based applications
Create the federation LSF and Landmark
Synchronize data between the LSF LDAP and the Landmark GEN database
Provision and administer users after federation
Maintain the Primary Authentication Service (PAS), SSOP or SSOPV2

For example, suppose users at your site applications based on Infor Landmark Technology, some use LSF applications, and others use both types of applications. Infor Security Services lets you add all users to both systems at one time.


Term	Meaning
authentication	The mechanism by which users present credentials for accessing an Infor Lawson. Infor Lawson supports several authentication methods.
Distributed Security Package (DSP)	Infor Lawson deliverable that contains ISS and tools to enable single sign-on.
federated system	Process by which two (or more) systems are associated (linked). Typically, performed one time only. Systems being federated MUST use the same authentication protocol.
Synchronization (sync)	Allows LSF LDAP and LMK GEN data to be seen in either system. A full backup of LSF and LMK systems should be completed prior to synchronization. (A sync cannot be undone.)
single sign-on	Allows users to access multiple Infor Lawson systems in a single session while authenticating only one time.