Security options for translation memories

You can impose a security policy for your translation memories through a combination of user type permissions, access control permissions, and attribute masking.

In WorldServer, you can take the following measures to protect your translation memories:
  • Restrict users' permissions to perform certain actions. For example, you might allow them to update or add TM entries during the translation process, but not to modify TM entries directly.
  • Set up users with limited modify permissions. For example, you might allow them to modify individual TM entries, but not to execute wide-ranging operations such as purging the TM.
  • Define TM entry attributes that are specific to one or more TMs. For example, a user who is modifying a TM entry can see only attributes that are relevant to that particular TM.
  • Limit the access to TMs to specific users or groups.

Read and write permissions may vary: for example, someone might have write permissions on one TM database, but only read permissions on another, and no access at all to a third TM database. You can also assign permissions to user groups, which means that all the users in that group can perform the same actions.