Friday, November 13, 2009

MS Access Security for Sensitive Data

This week was a fairly quiet workload; we mainly just touched up some security issues in the database project.  Seeing as though this database houses some extremely sensitive data regarding abused women, it's paramount that the information is secure.  Unfortunately, MS Access' built in security features leave much to be desired.

For instance, did you know that just using an input mask for a password field doesn't stop you from just removing the mask to reveal the text?  We clearly need to do more research about how to modify user permissions.

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