HCL Compass allows the administrator to protect Compass database repositories from brute-force attacks, here is the official documentation.  It limits the number of invalid login attempts of an attacker, who pretends as a user, before the lock out and also limits the login attempts from a certain host connecting to HCL Compass.  If an attacker is trying to hack and determine the password of a particular user, they might try many login attempts with different username and password combinations until they find one that works. As a defence against such attacks, HCL Compass can lock out the account or host used by the attacker when a certain number of failed attempts have occurred. When an account or a host is locked out, the login error message is the same as if the attacker entered an incorrect username and password. This prevents the attacker from knowing that the account has been locked out, causing them to waste resources on a continued fruitless attack. This severely limits the attacker to succeed in guessing the password.  Steps to protect the credential  HCL Compass enables the credential protection in just two simple steps.  First step to enable security is by creating a “.config” file with the below data. In this example we will create the config file with the name “SecureCredential.config”. This file can be created in any location; hence we have created the file in the HCL Compass default installation location, which is, “C:\Program Files\HCL\CCM\Compass”  # Comments are preceded by '#' and are ignored. # This enables lockouts lockout_enable 1 # Host lockout configuration # This sets the HOST lockout threshold to 10 tries lockout_threshold HOST 10  # This sets the HOST reset period to 60 seconds. lockout_reset HOST 60 # User lockout configuration # This sets the USER lockout threshold to 10 tries lockout_threshold USER 10  # This sets the USER reset period to 60 seconds. lockout_reset USER 60 # Whitelist / blacklists lockout_whitelist HOST whitelisthost lockout_whitelist USER whitelistuser1, whitelistuser lockout_blacklist HOST blacklisthost3 lockout_blacklist USER bl_user1 lockout_blacklist USER bl_user2,bl_user3 # Login attempt table cleanup # This says to cleanup any failed login attempts older # than one day (60s/m * 60m/hr * 24hr/day), and only # in...

Starting with HCL Compass 2.0.1, we now ship a new schema and package called EssentialSAFe. You can use this schema to help your team follow Essential SAFe ® practices. More information about SAFe can be found on the Scaled Agile Framework® website. SAFe and Scaled Agile Framework are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile, Inc. In our last blog, Introducing an Essential SAFe® Schema and Package for HCL Compass 2.0.1, we introduced the release train and its supporting records, such as the Solution, Team, ProgramIncrement and Iteration records. In this blog we will introduce  you to the SAFe work items available in the EssentialSAFe schema. Introduction In the EssentialSAFe schema, there are three work items available to scope, plan and implement wonderful experiences in your solutions. They are the Feature, Story, and Task. These make up part of the SAFe Requirements Model, which is shown below: Among the work items shown here, only the Feature and Story are available in Essential SAFe. In addition, the Task work item (optional in SAFe) can be used. Below we describe each of these, including how they get created. Features Feature work items are completed within a Program Increment (PI), which generally lasts 8-12 weeks. There are two types of features, a business feature and an enabler feature. Business features are created by Product Managers with assistance from Product Owners. Enabler features are created by System Architects and System Engineers and provide an Architectural Runway. To create a feature, use the New… menu in the upper left. Note – the menu will say New Query if you are using the sample EssentialSAFe database, because no default record type has been specified yet. Work items in HCL Compass EssentialSAFe are stateful records. That means they follow a state model. The following diagram shows the states and...

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