Newcomers to SAS Viya Administration may appreciate these tried-and-tested patterns for securing folders, and the content within them (reports, data plans, models etc.). If you are new to security model design in SAS Viya, this post is for you.
Simple general authorization patterns was published on SAS Users.
In my blog series regarding SAS REST APIs (you can read all of my posts on this topic here) I outlined how to integrate SAS analytical capabilities into applications. I detailed how to construct REST calls, build body parameters and interpret the responses. I’ve not yet covered authentication for the […]
Authentication to SAS Viya: a couple of approaches was published on SAS Users.
For several releases, SAS has supported a cryptographic hash function called MD5, or “message digest”. In SAS 9.4 Maintenance 1, the new SHA256 function can serve the same purpose with a better implementation. The job of a hash function is to take some input (of any type and of any […]
As I said in yesterday’s My 2013 Top Ten article, I think that metadata-bound libraries (introduced in V9.3 maintenance 2) are one of the most significant SAS enhancements for some time. It seems SAS’s Chris Hemedinger agrees. Read his Closing the “LIB…
Back in November last year I mentioned Metadata-Bound Libraries. This v9.3 M2 (and above) functionality allows you to force access to your data through metadata libraries, thereby enforcing your metadata security plans.
One of the nuggets of informati…
Following my recent post about the excellent new metadata-bound libraries in V9.3 M2, I noticed Paul Homes publish a blog article with the results of his testing of this new capability. Paul shows some code samples and associated log output. Take a loo…
Since the introduction of metadata-defined LIBNAMEs in the earliest days of version 9, it’s been a frustration that the security that can be applied within SAS metadata to control who can access libraries can be completely undermined by users simply …
Metacoda’s Michelle recently wrote to me. I’m a fan of the Platform Admin blog, written by Metacoda’s Paul; and I’ve long been a fan of Metacoda’s Security Plug-Ins that offer a far wider and clearer window onto the complexity of SAS security me…