User Guide

Advanced Security Basics 83
Security contexts
A security context is a container for logically-related groups of policies.
You can create and implement as many security contexts as your application or
development environment requires:
• You can reuse a single security context, implementing it across several
applications.
• If you are deploying a more complex application, you may need to create more
than one security context for that application alone.
• If you’re managing a fairly small, homogeneous group of developers, you can use
a single security context for an entire ColdFusion application server.
• You can create a separate security context for each of your development groups.
This approach is recommended if you administer a hosted development
environment or if your developers access ColdFusion resources remotely.