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deucewildwood		 Authentication: Database vs Application
Dec 3 2007, 6:32 PM EST
We plan to expose our data warehouse to our extranet which would imply a userbase in the low thousands (5-10). The current direction is to use Directory Services (aka Virtual Directory) to leverage our inhouse LDAP (Tivoli) and AD directories for authentication. Is it crazy to authenticate at the database level as opposed to using service accounts? Some security specialists I've had conversations with contend that it is. Part of the justification is the fine grain security (VPD) will need to have individual information (e.g. physicians only being able to see claims they serviced). Justification "part 2" is that we do not want to enforce fine grained security at the app level. Business Objects is our "primary" interface, but there are still other avenues to the data. 1  out of 7 found this valuable. Do you?    

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