Secure Your System

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A Citect SCADA system is protected by implementing a user-based security model. When planning a project, you need to consider who will be using the system and the areas they will need to access.

There are two ways you can manage user accounts:

Integrated Windows security (recommended) — Windows user accounts are used to access Citect SCADA computers. The security measures specified for the local network domain will apply.
Citect SCADA security — user accounts are created within the Citect SCADA project. They can be organized into groups.

In both cases, access to the Citect SCADA system is managed by assigning user accounts to "roles" defined within a project. Roles specify for a particular type of user:

the areas they will be able to access
the privileges they will have.

Roles and Citect SCADA user accounts are configured using the Security activity.

You can also secure your runtime computers, or run Citect SCADA as a Windows service.