Security Authentication

Every Server has a list of not more than one hundred (100) users (identified by a unique user name-password combination), and a Server is able to support all one hundred users simultaneously (one validated session per user). The presence of a user name-password combination on a Server constitutes one login. Each login may access all (or a specified sub-set) of the financial data and news being collected by the Server.

The set of data associated with a login is called a profile (or "entitlement profile"). A profile defines which data a user may access.

To access data, an application must first open a session and then supply a user name and password. If the Server can authenticate the user name-password combination, the session becomes "validated" by the Server. Validation constitutes permission to view data as prescribed by the login’s profile.

The method for creating a login on a Server varies from feed to feed. If a data feed administers logins on behalf of the Server, that Server is said to be “feed entitled”. By contrast, if a data feed does not administer logins, Aspen Research Group, Ltd. provides a utility called "Admin" to establish logins; such Servers are "Admin entitled."

Admin Entitled Data Feeds

Bonneville Market Information

DBC Signal

S&P Comstock

Reuters AMS

Reuters SSL

Feed Entitled Data Feeds

DTN

Reuters (formerly BridgeFeed)

Reuters DACS

A feed entitled Server does not have to use logins provided by the feed. The Admin utility can be used to administer logins on Servers that parse feed entitled data feeds.