Configure Citect SCADA Security

To set up security in Citect SCADA, you firstly need to consider how you will implement areas and privileges within your system.

• Areas define sections within a production facility, creating geographical or logical boundaries that can be used to restrict access.
• Privileges define the level of access that is applied to system elements within your project.

Once you have planned how areas and privileges will be managed (and how they can work in tandem), you can start adding roles and users to the system.

• Roles define a set of permissions (based on privileges and areas) that can be assigned to users of the same type.
• Users represent the individuals (or groups) that need to access to the runtime system.

You can define users in Citect SCADA, or you can integrate Windows™ user groups. Every user needs to be assigned to a role to be granted privileges.

Published June 2018