ColdFusion has two mutually exclusive levels of server security options: Basic and Advanced. You can use either type of security to protect a wide variety of resources.
Basic security features include the use of passwords that secure access to the ColdFusion Administrator pages and to files, directories and data sources from ColdFusion Studio. Only users with these passwords can access all resources and all ColdFusion Administrator pages. Basic security is the default for ColdFusion at installation.
Advanced security features allow you to authenticate individual users, and control authenticated user access to a wide range of operations, such as adding or deleting data sources, and setting server performance options.
For example, you can define security domains and policies that secure specific areas of the ColdFusion Administrator or specific ColdFusion resources, including the execution of specific ColdFusion tags.