Network and Communication Security 
Your network infrastructure is extremely important in protecting your system. Your network needs to support the communication necessary for your business and your needs without allowing unauthorized access. A well-defined network topology can eliminate many security threats based on software flaws (at both the operating system and application level) or network attacks such as eavesdropping. If users cannot log on to your application or database servers at the operating system or database layer, then there is no way for intruders to compromise the machines and gain access to the backend system’s database or files. Additionally, if users are not able to connect to the server LAN (local area network), they cannot exploit well-known bugs and security holes in network services on the server machines.
Details that specifically apply to Interactive Forms based on Adobe software are following described:
· Network security
The network topology for the Interactive Forms solution is based on the topology used by the SAP NetWeaver platform. The forms development is fully integrated into the environment of the ABAP Workbench, repectively the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio. Therefore, the security guidelines and recommendations described in the SAP NetWeaver Security Guide also apply to Interactive Forms based on Adobe software.
We recommend
that you use the Adobe document services in the High security area of your
network zones, because of the processing with confidential data. For more
information, see 
Using Multiple Network
Zones in the SAP NetWeaver Security Guide.
· Communication Channel Security
This topic describes the communication paths and protocols used by Interactive Forms Solution.
This topic describes the information needed for the various communication paths, for example, which users are used for which communications.
For more information, see the following sections in the SAP NetWeaver Security Guide: