Securing Your Reports

Abstract

A major data breach is reported on an almost weekly basis. One of the first that caught my attention was the 2012 theft of South Carolina’s state taxpayer database. In 2015, hackers stole the electronic records of millions of US federal government employees. A report developer may not need to configure security, but he or she should be able to understand how SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) security works to assist the administrator if requested.