Advanced security makes it easier for developers to enforce application security. After your administrator sets up the appropriate security contexts for your application, you can start using ColdFusion security tags and functions to authenticate users and see if they've been authorized for the part of the application they're trying to access.
This section describes how to use security tags and functions to authenticate users and provide or withhold resources according to the security context's rules.
Application.cfm
file.) Pass the authentication information to subsequent pages where you want to test for authentication.
ColdFusion sets a cookie, CFAUTH, to contain authentication information. If you choose not to use this cookie, you must check authentication for each request.
Read the section "Example of User Authentication and Authorization" to see code examples that show how these tags functions work in ColdFusion applications.
To learn about syntax and usage for the CFAUTHENTICATE and CFIMPERSONATE tags, and the IsAuthenticated and IsAuthorized functions, See the CFML Language Reference.
For an added measure of security, you can encrypt strings in your applications using the Encrypt and Decrypt functions. See the CFML Language Reference for descriptions of these functions.