A Unique Approach to True Security Granularity

In today’s business climate where data proliferation is the norm, companies readily acknowledge the
need to unlock their data’s hidden intelligence in order to outperform their competition. And successfully
leveraging this data requires a comprehensive data management plan that features, among other things,
data mining and business intelligence.

Yet many IT organizations resist such initiatives because they harbor security concerns about exposing
sensitive company data to these types of mining and analysis applications; this issue escalates when
external as well as internal audiences require access to the data. They raise valid questions, such as:

• “Who should have access?”
• “Which data are users allowed to access?”
• “Can I host all of my customer data in one database yet maintain differential security
  access?”

To address these concerns, SwiftKnowledge advocates securing data down to the individual cell—rather
than just to the folder structure or report level. This tech note explains SwiftKnowledge’s cell-based granular
security approach—an approach powered by our patented, Component-Level Security™ (CLS)—and the
benefits it provides organizations with regards to flexibility and performance. This tech note also discusses
how SwiftKnowledge addresses typical security issues surrounding the concept of multi-tenancy (multiple
customer data stored within the same database and/or within the same application entry point), and supports
an organization’s overall needs relating to data security, object security and functionality security.

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