Security considerations for Rational Test Workbench

You can take actions to ensure that your installation is secure and customize your security settings. You can also ensure that you know about any security limitations that you might encounter.

Ports, protocols, and services

The Majordomo service running on remote agents must run with administrator or super user credentials, which means that the test execution it supports has full privileges on the test computer where it resides. Product communication uses HTTP and HTTPS. Ports are configurable.

Customizing your security settings

Datapools can be encrypted and access controlled by password that is difficult, but not impossible, to break.

Privacy policy considerations

This software offering does not use cookies or other technologies to collect personally identifiable information.

Security limitations

Passwords are stored using Eclipse mechanisms that are difficult but not impossible to break.

Workbench and agent communication is encrypted but not absolutely safe from impersonation attack.

Rational Integration Tester

Security considerations for IBM® Rational® Integration Tester can be found here.


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