Authorization Manager Plug-in and Custom Metadata Permissions
Something I’ve only noticed recently, which I haven’t seen in the SAS® 9.2 What’s New documentation, is an apparent change relating to support for custom, or user-defined, metadata permissions in the...
View ArticleWriteMemberMetadata Permission
The WriteMemberMetadata (WMM) permission was a welcome addition back when SAS 9.2 was released, because it allowed an administrator to distinguish between a users ability to manage a metadata folder...
View ArticleBaseline Security Metadata for a new SAS® 9.3 Deployment
When I’m reviewing SAS® metadata security implementations, I find it useful to have baseline security metadata to refer to. This baseline documents the initial state of metadata security (ACTs, ACEs,...
View ArticleProtecting the Unrestricted from Impersonation
I was asked a very insightful question about SAS® metadata security this week. This question and the ensuing investigation means I’ll now consider the inclusion of protections for unrestricted users in...
View ArticleTesting Direct Access to SAS Metadata Bound Libraries and Tables
A little while ago, as part of the work on our recent Metacoda Plug-ins 3.0 R2 release, I used SAS® 9.3 M2 to set up a metadata bound library by following the useful instructions in the Setting Up a...
View ArticleProtecting your Metadata Protections: Part 2
In a guest post on blogs.sas.com in January, I wrote about protecting your metadata protections. In that post I said that “Ideally, a SAS® metadata security plan should address both ACT permissions and...
View ArticleCreating a Metadata Bound Library with SAS 9.4
One of the nice enhancements in SAS® Management Console 9.4 is the addition of a point & click method for creating a Metadata Bound Library. Metadata Bound Libraries have been available since SAS...
View ArticleSAS Metadata Security Testing
SAS® Global Forum 2014 is now only a few days away, and I’m excited (and a little nervous) about presenting my paper Test for Success: Automated Testing of SAS® Metadata Security Implementations....
View ArticleNew Permissions in SAS 9.4 M2: ManageCredentialsMetadata & ManageMemberMetadata
SAS® 9.4 M2 was released recently and included some new permissions related to identity administration. These new permissions are ManageMemberMetadata (MMM), for groups and roles, and...
View ArticleChatGPT and SAS 9 Metadata Security
With all the news around ChatGPT lately, I thought I would see how it performed when asked questions about SAS 9 Metadata Security. This is a niche specialty with some complex rules when you get down...
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