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RE: Preventing access to a local replica ~Tate Quetgerobergakoi 7.Jan.04 09:53 PM a Web browser Notes Client All ReleasesAll Platforms
Say I'm Naughty Sales Representative. My supervisor gets wind of my other nefarious activities and gives me the boot. I examine the DB from time to time, everything is visible, then all of a sudden, I can't get to it - everything's gone. What could account for that? hmmmm...well, best to get out the backup I was smart enough to have made to a CD before everything went haywire, and copy it over top of the blanked out one. What's this? Hmmmmm...can't get to the restored one either. Why is that? Well, I'm unemployed so I probably have lots of time to figure it out. hmmmmm...now I've got it! It's because it's dated! Well, if I back up the clock and then do a restore, I've got it all back!
The bottom line is that with a backup CD in hand, the determined Naughty Sales Representative can more or less easily walk himself through getting the data back.
Let's also remember that it's also quite possible that Naughty Sales Representative has exported the data from the application(s) in question to Excel or Word (or whatever) through the Export option available through the menu bar when he/she is in a view. There's certainly no way to keep that secure once the data has left the cozy confines of the .nsf.
The bottom line is that there is no foolproof way to secure data stored in a local .nsf.
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