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Security, Dep security – Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE ActiveView 3.2 User Guide User Manual

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For Developers: Administering FactoryTalk Historian ActiveView

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PIAPIConnections.exe: a tool for configuring Historian
Servers.

Security

Internet Explorer security settings can determine whether users can view
Display Documents. To view these settings, choose Tools > Internet
options > Security
.

For HTML pages distributed through a corporate Intranet, you may want to
use a different security zone with different settings than for external sites.

The security levels that are available for Internet Explorer are:

Setting

Response

High

Does not download or run ActiveX Controls, either signed or unsigned.
FactoryTalk Historian ActiveView does not run.

Medium

The user is prompted to download digitally signed components. Unsigned
components are not allowed to download. FactoryTalk Historian ActiveView

does not run if unsigned components are required.

Medium-low

The user is prompted to download digitally signed ActiveX controls and

plugins. Unsigned components are not allowed to download. FactoryTalk
Historian ActiveView does not run if unsigned components are required.

Low

Signed components are downloaded without any user interaction. The user is

prompted to download unsigned components.

Custom

Allows you to configure every security setting, rather than groups of settings.

For users who define custom security levels, we recommend that you set Run
ActiveX controls and plug-ins
and Script ActiveX controls marked as

safe for scripting to Enable.

DEP Security

Data Execution Prevention (DEP) is system-level memory protection,
introduced with Windows XP SP2, and available in subsequent Windows