Friday, February 24, 2012

Cell Security : Help

SECURITY USING CELL-SECURITY:

From what i've read cell security s enforced on the client. If someone is able to gain access to a machine running the client (for example an application server or a web server) he is able to get cell values independently of the fact that those values will be defined as #N/A in the secured cell value property. The real value is travelling between theAnalysis Server and the application server. Is this true ? How can we effectively garantee true security ?Did you look in BOL?

Cell Security
In a cube role, you can implement cell security to limit the cube cells that end users in the role can view as they browse cubes. You can also grant read/write access to a write-enabled cube and limit the cells that end users in the role can update. You do this by selecting a policy and by selecting a rule or defining a custom rule for each permission.

Cell security is optional. If you do not specify cell security, end users see all cell values in cubes they are authorized to access. (However, if dimension security is specified, cells for some members might not be viewable.) If a cube is write-enabled, end users cannot update cell values. If one or more of a virtual cube's component cubes are write-enabled, end users cannot update the cell values of virtual cubes.

If a policy or rule permits updates to a cell, it can be updated if it is an atomic cell. If the cell is not atomic, it can be updated only if the client application provides a way of dispersing the update over the subordinate atomic cells. For example, in a client application a write-enabled cube is displayed with the lowest level of every dimension except Time. On the axis for the Time dimension, the nonatomic cells for months are displayed, but the subordinate atomic cells for days are not. (Days is the lowest level in the Time dimension.) A cell for June can be updated by adding $90 if the client application provides a way of dividing the +$90 update into thirty +$3 updates, one to each of the cells for the 30 days in June. Dispersion methods other than simple division can also be used. The UPDATE CUBE statement provides several methods. For more information, see UPDATE CUBE Statement.

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