Security Policies and Roles

Security policies are used for configuring security settings that are enforced by security roles and certificates.

Security policies are configured on the mobile devices by using a security policy provisioning document (XML file) that is applied by the SecurityPolicy Configuration Service Provider. Windows Mobile-based devices contain a default security policy provisioning document that you can modify.

Security roles define a logical representation of physical users based on their roles in relation to the devices. These roles are used by device management and during application installation to allow different levels of access to the resources of a device (for example, registry keys, files, settings, and APIs).

In This Section

• Security Roles
  Security roles identify levels of access. Describes the Security Roles and provides their decimal values. also provides Security Role information that is specific to Smartphone and Pocket PC.
• Security Policies
  Security policies enable you to configure security settings. Describes Security Policy Settings, and explains how to change the policies.

Related Sections

• Application Security
  Application security provides levels of protection against application installation, application execution.
• Metabase Provisioning
  How to create or modify a provisioning XML document to change metabase settings.
• Modifying the Security Policy Provisioning Document
  How to modify the default security policy document.

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