MACROMEDIA BREEZE-SECURITY, Manual

Security Levels

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Application-Level Security

The Breeze application has a built-in ACL-based security model that lets you assign users 
different permissions to access Breeze’s features. For example, you can control what users have 
permissions to publish presentations by adding them to the Account Authors group. You can also 
control which folders individual users can publish to. 

Breeze has four primary groups that grant users access to specific features in the Breeze system. By 
adding users to these groups, you can control what role a user has in your Breeze account. 

These groups are: 

Account Administrators

  Members of the Account Administrators group have access to all 

functions within the Breeze account. They can create and manage users, manage content, create 
and manage courses and create and manage meetings. Note that a member of the Account 
Administrators group will still need to be a member of the Account Authors group in order to 
publish content.

Account Authors

  Members of the Account Authors group have access to publishing features. 

They can publish content to the Breeze system, including using the Breeze plug-in for PowerPoint 
to publish presentations to Breeze.

Course Managers

  Members of the Course Managers group manage the Course Library 

including creating courses, incorporating course content from Account Authors, enrolling users, 
sending enrollee notifications, and setting up course reminders. They can also view content and 
course reports. 

Meeting Administrators

  Members of the Meeting Administrators are able to perform all 

functions associated with creating meetings including setting up a meeting, inviting participants, 
sending invitations and viewing reports.

In addition to adding users to groups to grant them rights to use features in the Breeze system, 
you can also grant them permissions to access specific folders, content, courses and meetings. For 
example, you can control whether or not a certain Account Author has permissions to publish to 
a specific folder.

For more information on using Breeze’s application-level security features, please refer to the 
Breeze presentation titled 

Setting Up Users, Groups, and Permissions

 at 

www.macromedia.com/go/

breeze_support

. Instructions for setting permissions are available in the About Permissions 

chapter of the Breeze Manager Help Guide. You can access the Breeze Manager Help Guide 
through the Breeze Manager web application. To access the Breeze Manager, choose Start > 
Programs > Macromedia > Macromedia Breeze 3 > Breeze Login Page.

Physical Security

Customers who store sensitive information on their servers should be aware of the physical 
security of their systems. Breeze relies on the safety of the host system against intruders, so servers 
should be kept secured where private and confidential data is at risk. Breeze is designed to take 
advantage of native environmental features like file system encryption where available if 
configured by the user.