Portal Security Services

WebSphere® Portal provides several configuration services for authentication, Portal Access Control, and Portal User Management (PUMA).

Authentication Service
The portal Authentication Service contains the configuration properties for portal authentication. Authentication means that users identify themselves in order to gain access to the system. Usually they do this by a user ID and password.
Credential Vault Service
You can use the portal Credential Vault Service to configure Vault Adapter implementations that are used by the Credential Vault Service to store credential secrets.
Portal Access Control Services
WebSphere Portal provides several configuration services for Portal Access Control.
Puma Store and Validation Services
The following topics list and describe the configuration services for Portal User Management (PUMA): these are the Puma Store Service and the Puma Validation Service.

Parent topic: Portal service configuration