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Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
Security
IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Compliance
In IBM Connections™, FIPS compliance is managed through IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.

Administering Connections 6 CR6
Welcome to the HCL Connections 6 CR6 documentation. HCL Connections is social networking software designed for the workplace. Its features help you to establish dynamic networks that connect you to the people and information you need to achieve your business goals.
- What's new in HCL Connections 6
  Find out about features that are new or updated in this release of HCL Connections.
- Product overview
  Learn how to deploy, customize, and administer the IBM Connections social networking product.
- Planning
  Before installing HCL Connections™, study the system requirements, deployment options, and documentation conventions.
- Installing
  To install IBM® Connections, you need to follow a detailed series of procedures.
- Migrating and updating
  Migrate IBM® Connections and its supporting software to the latest release and then update the installation with the latest interim fixes or Cumulative Refresh (CR).
- Administering
  Run administration and maintenance tasks to keep your environment up-to-date. For example, learn how to customize your deployment or how to use the wsadmin utility to edit configuration files. You can also schedule tasks, maintain application databases, moderate content, or manage users and their roles.
- Customizing
  Customize IBM® Connections to fit your environment.
- Security
  IBM® Connections provides a flexible security infrastructure that supports an open, easily shareable data model.
  - Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Compliance
    In IBM Connections™, FIPS compliance is managed through IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.
  - Allowing third-party applications access to data via the OAuth2 protocol
    Allow third-party applications to ask your IBM® Connections users for access to their data.
  - Configuring single sign-on
    Set up single sign-on integration between IBM® Connections and other IBM products and third-party security products.
  - Authentication with SAML
    You can use the SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) 2.0 web SSO redirection services support to implement user authentication and single sign-on (SSO). To establish your SAML environment, you must consider the following information to ensure that your system is a good candidate.
  - Configuring the AJAX proxy
    By default, the IBM® Connections AJAX proxy is configured to allow cookies, headers or mime types, and all HTTP actions to be exchanged among the IBM Connections applications. If you want to change the traffic that is allowed from non-IBM Connections services, you must explicitly configure it.
  - Enabling locked domains
    Assuming that you have completed the server setup previously described, to enable locked domains in IBM® Connections, specify an additional attribute in the LotusConnections-config.xml to ensure that only ConnectionsOpensocial application is mapped to the locked domain host.
  - Enabling virus scanning
    Edit configuration property settings to force the applications that handle uploaded files to scan all files for viruses.
  - Forcing traffic to be sent over an encrypted connection
    You can configure IBM® Connections to force all traffic that passes between an IBM Connections server and a user's web browser to be sent over an encrypted connection.
  - Forcing traffic to use TLS 1.2
    You can configure IBM® Connections to force all traffic that passes between a Connections server and a user's web browser to be sent over TLS 1.2 to avoid security vulnerabilities in TLS 1.1 and earlier versions of SSL.
  - Forcing users to log in before they can access an application
    Change the access levels of members or groups to require them to provide credentials before they can access an IBM® Connections application.
  - Securing applications from malicious attack
    IBM® Connections provides security measures, such as an active content filter and content upload limits, that you can use to mitigate the risk of malicious attacks. Because these security measures can also limit the flexibility of the applications, you, as the system administrator, must evaluate the security of your network and determine whether or not you need to implement them.
  - Restricting domains used by the login page redirect parameter
    By default, the IBM Connections default login page allows redirecting to any destination. You can configure Connections to use a whitelist of domains to ensure login navigation to a secure page.
- Mobile
  See the IBM Connections Mobile documentation for Connections Cloud and Connections on-premises.
- Developing
  Get information about how to use the APIs provided with IBM® Connections and how to use Connections Customizer to modify the Connections pages that are returned to users.
- Troubleshooting and support
  To isolate and resolve problems with your IBM® products, you can use the troubleshooting and support information. This information contains instructions for using the problem-determination resources that are provided with your IBM products, including HCL Connections™.

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Compliance and IBM Connections™

In IBM Connections™, FIPS compliance is managed through IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.

IBM Connections™ runs on IBM® WebSphere® Application Server which supports the FIPS 140-2 standard. All cryptographic modules are provided by WebSphere®. For details on configuring FIPS 140-2 see the WebSphere® help topic, WebSphere Application Server security standards configurations. Any specific questions should be directed to the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server team.

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