OfficeTalk provides you with the functionality to connect to another workgroup in order to view data within that workgroup. The converse is also true. Other organisations, given your permission, may connect to and view data held within your workgroup.
Workgroups that make a connection to your workgroup are initially non-trusted. OfficeTalk provides security features which let you choose what data to give out to non-trusted workgroups. You may also specify a security profile for all non-trusted remote workgroups. Such a security profile would most likely give connecting workgroups, minimum access rights, if any, to the data in your workgroup. At a later stage, once the connecting remote workgroup has been qualified as a trusted workgroup, it may be assigned a security profile giving it a higher level of access to your data. Furthermore, after a remote workgroup has established a connection to your workgroup, you will be able to optionally assign different security levels to any of the remote users within that remote workgroup. So, for example, certain managers in the remote workgroup may be given full access to the data in your workgroup, while all other users may be given minimal access.
Inter workgroup security works in much the same way as local workgroup security. You have full control over the access that members of a remote workgroup have to every item of data in your workgroup and you may specify which modes a particular remote workgroup has access to and what members of that workgroup can and cannot do within those modes.