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"Don´t talk to strangers" if only data security policies were this easy. Learn to keep your SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence data truly safe from unauthorized actions with this comprehensive guide. Begin with security basics and work your way to advanced concepts; along the way, you ll explore functional and data security, define a rights model, and secure data sources and universes. Step-by-step instructions ensure that you can implement important security techniques in your administration and design work. This book puts the master key to data security in your hands.
1. Best Practices Unveiled
Implement a security system that is easy to understand, use, and enhance by using basic workflows.
2. Rights Framework
Put the rights framework to work for you using group and folder inheritance and custom access levels.
3. Specific Rights
Explore the specific rights of system and content objects stored in the CMS repository, as well as BI 4.0 suite applications.
4. Universe Security
Compare security features of universes created with Universe Design Tool side by side with its successor, Information Design Tool.
5. SAP NetWeaver BW, LDAP, and Active Directory
Learn how to secure your SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 system using external authentication systems and data sources.
Highlights Include:
SAP NetWeaver BW, LDAP, and Active Directory authentication
Single sign-on
Rights framework and inheritance model
Access levels
General and specific rights
Secured connections
Universe security
Access restriction
Data and business security profile
Scheduling, publications, and personalization profile

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Christian Ah-Soon has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for 13 years as a program manager on transversal areas like administration, security, internationalization, and installation. For the last major release, SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0, he worked on the Semantic Layer team. Christian holds a Ph.D. in computer science and graduated from TELECOM Nancy.

David Fran‡ois Gonzalez is an SAP BusinessObjects product expert engineer with the research and development group based in France. David has worked for SAP BusinessObjects for 13 years, starting with the BusinessObjects V5 and the Supervisor product and later managing a team in charge of BusinessObjects V6 suite testing. David shifted to customer contact with XI R2 and XI 3.1, where he was in charge of customer environment replication. Four years ago, he started working very close to both the field and the customers, providing best practices and white papers on internal and external websites. Since then, he has participated in conferences such as Utilisateurs SAP Francophones and TechEd, and he regularly helps customers troubleshoot site problems and implement SAP BusinessObjects solutions.

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