What's new in AX 2012 - Flash news 8: Extensible Data Security (XDS) in AX 2012

Extensible Data Security (XDS) in AX 2012

XDS is a new frame work for data security and can be termed as an alternate to Record Level Security (RLS) and both are available in AX 2012. Record Level Security is going to be removed/deprecated from the next version (2015).

Extensible Data Security(XDS) provides all the functionality that the RLS feature provided, but provides more security controls and major functionality that is missing from the RLS feature. With XDS, the developers can write more powerful queries to restrict the data that users can access. The restrictions are more secure, and they are applied not only to the UI, but also at the server level. The restrictions can be based not only on the fields in the table that users are accessing, but on data in other tables, as well. This becomes increasingly important as the tables become more normalized in each version.

 

Developing an extensible data security policy involves the following steps:

1.       Modelling the query on the primary table. 

2.       Creating the policy.

3.       Adding the constrained tables and views.

4.       Setting the context.

 

Clink the link below to download the white paper on XDS.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh272862.aspx