Microsoft Access Protection  and Security - Book Links

Securing Access Data

A wonderful paper from Visa Card International that provides many wonderful checklists for creating good office, human and computer security
http://www.visaeu.com/for_business/e-commerce_security/documentation/ais_questionnaire.pdf

Understanding MS Access Security  - Read
http://www.microsoft.com/AccessDev/Articles/BApp97/chapters/ba14_1.htm

Determining permissions and many other user-level security issues
http://www.microsoft.com/AccessDev/Articles/BApp97/chapters/ba14_2.htm

How to use ADO with Visual Basic or VBA for Access Passwords and Workgroups
http://www.vb123.com/toolshed/02_docs/accessadosecure.htm

Running the Access User Level Security Wizard in Access 2000
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odeopg/html/deovrrunninguserlevelsecuritywizard.asp

Notes on Access User-Level Security Wizard by Frank Rice, the technical editor of this book  
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnacc2k2/html/odc_AcSecurity.asp

The highly referenced Access Security FAQ paper
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/access/content/secfaq.asp

Mary Chipman’s article entitled “Is Database Security an Oxymoron?” in Access / VB SQL Advisor
http://www.advisor.com/doc/11530

The workgroup Information file and command line startups
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odeopg/html/deovrtheworkgroupinformationfile.asp

Newsgroup thread about putting command line arguments in code
http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=9357A9B9Fdfentonbwaynet%4024.168.128.78

Detecting the groups that the user is joined to
http://www.dbases.net/knowledge_base/security_user_group.html

RWOP and Lookup Tables
http://www.mvps.org/access/lookupfields.htm

A number of related security posts
http://www.dbases.net/knowledge_base/security_tips.html

Newsgroup discussion on Access Security and forcing of passwords
http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/4/lev3/27/pid/181/qid/337243

Windows Authentication Security In SQL Server
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/adminsql/ad_security_47u6.asp

Access Security Notes
http://www.moretools.com/lessons/access_security.htm

Changing Queries to RWOP
http://dbforums.com/t581239.html

View Your Access Reports on an Intranet using the SSW Report.Net software
http://www.ssw.com.au/ssw/AccessReporterForIIS/

Books - Articles - Help Guides

MS Office Developer 2000 or 2002. Visual Basic Programmers Guide

Smart Access Aug 2001 - Workgroup security
Smart Access  - August 1999 PID's etc

Search Access help for “Command Lines”

The PID authentication approach is suggested in Access 2000 or later help if you search for “workgroup information files” and then look for the topic “Setup more than one workgroup to manage the same secure database”

Pages Added Since The Book Was Published

How to Use IDC Files to Query a Secure Microsoft Access Database
http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/Articles/Q161/1/72.asp&NoWebContent=1

How to remove User-Level Security from a Database
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/2000/three/65t3_8.htm

Chapter 16 of the Access 2003 VBA Programmers Reference by Graham Seach and others is a good reference on programming Access User Level Security Click here

Samples of Data Security and Database Passwords

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