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10.1 Components of the Notes/Domino security model
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At its most basic, there are three components of the Notes security model: server
(physical) access, database access, and data access. The server contains the
database, which contains the data, as best shown in Figure 10-1.
Figure 10-1 The three components of the Notes security model
From this we can identify three types of overall security concerns which we must
consider: physical security, network security and Notes security. This is
illustrates in Figure 10-2.
Figure 10-2 The three types of security concerns
Here we can see that server security needs to be dealt with from a physical,
network and Notes security perspective, whereas database and data protection
(for the purposes of this security concept), need to be dealt with only from a
Notes security perspective. In order to be as clear as possible, we look at each
type of security and make recommendations and suggestions for organizations
wanting to implement it.