Proper Security

[Eamonn John Casey]

EA is blown out of the water when it comes to security features found in other Products. Is there any plans to improve Security?
I am thinking:
* Hiding catalogs / models / elements from People that should not see them.

Can someone in Sparx respond to this? It is so serious for my organisation that we are considering changing to another Product even though the other Product has less functionality elsewhere.

[skiwi]

http://www.sparxsystems.com/about.html#contact

[qwerty]

The current EA "security" is nothing else than an accidental deletion prevention system. Every EA user can turn it off since they need full access to the database. Implementing something that deserves the name security would definitely make a zero be added at the right end of EA's current prizes. At least.

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[Geert Bellekens]

Can someone in Sparx respond to this? It is so serious for my organisation that we are considering changing to another Product even though the other Product has less functionality elsewhere.

This is a user forum. If you want a response from Sparx you should contact them directly.

Geert

[Graham_Moir]

Sparx has announced that row-level security/locking is coming, although exactly what that means hasn't been defined/communicate yet as far as I know.

[qwerty]

I've read that in the recent cloud-stuff adverts from Sparx.

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[blang]

As far as I understood from the Pro Cloud Server advertisment, Sparx plans to utilize the "row level security" (RLS) feature built into Oracle and MSSQL databases. From the theory, RLS will provide fine grained access control to DATABASE tables. The interesting question, however, will be how Sparx manages to ensure MODEL consistency across tables that are possibly filtered by RLS in a inconsistent way (e.g. you can see an entry in t_connector, but not the corresponding entries in t_object).