NOTE: Security Metadata Tool Enhanced (Metacoda Security Plug-Ins)
Back in April at SAS Global Forum (SGF) I wrote to say how I was impressed by the Metacoda Security Plug-Ins. SAS's security capabilities are not in question; the Metacoda Security Plug-Ins are a...
View ArticleNOTE: Security Metadata Tool Enhanced (Metacoda Security Plug-Ins)
Back in April at SAS Global Forum (SGF) I wrote to say how I was impressed by the Metacoda Security Plug-Ins. SAS's security capabilities are not in question; the Metacoda Security Plug-Ins are a...
View ArticleNOTE: Metacoda Plug-Ins V3 With Free Plug-Ins
Metacoda's Michelle recently wrote to me. I'm a fan of the Platform Admin blog, written by Metacoda's Paul; and I've long been a fan of Metacoda's Security Plug-Ins that offer a far wider and clearer...
View ArticleNOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries
Since the introduction of metadata-defined LIBNAMEs in the earliest days of version 9, it's been a frustration that the security that can be applied within SAS metadata to control who can access...
View ArticleNOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries in Action
Following my recent post about the excellent new metadata-bound libraries in V9.3 M2, I noticed Paul Homes publish a blog article with the results of his testing of this new capability. Paul shows some...
View ArticleNOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries – Updates at SGF 2013 #sasgf13
Back in November last year I mentioned Metadata-Bound Libraries. This v9.3 M2 (and above) functionality allows you to force access to your data through metadata libraries, thereby enforcing your...
View ArticleNOTE: Metadata-Bound Libraries for Dummies
As I said in yesterday's My 2013 Top Ten article, I think that metadata-bound libraries (introduced in V9.3 maintenance 2) are one of the most significant SAS enhancements for some time. It seems SAS's...
View ArticleA fresh helping of hash: the SHA256 function in SAS 9.4m1
For several releases, SAS has supported a cryptographic hash function called MD5, or "message digest". In SAS 9.4 Maintenance 1, the new SHA256 function can serve the same purpose with a better...
View ArticleAuthentication to SAS Viya: a couple of approaches
This post was kindly contributed by SAS Users - go there to comment and to read the full post. Need to authenticate on REST API calls In my blog series regarding SAS REST APIs (you can read all of my...
View ArticleSimple general authorization patterns
This post was kindly contributed by SAS Users - go there to comment and to read the full post. Newcomers to SAS Viya Administration may appreciate these tried-and-tested patterns for securing folders,...
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