Real World Microsoft Access Database Protection and Security

As you might expect, there is never enough information when it comes to powerful products like Access. To assist you with further investigations, I have put together a Web page with links to Web sites and articles on the issues relating to the material in this chapter. This page includes:

• A useful paper from Visa Card International that provides many terrific checklists for creating good office, human, and computer security.

• The highly referenced Access security FAQ white paper.

• Mary Chipman's article, "Is Database Security an Oxymoron?" in Access-VB-SQL Advisor magazine web site.

• How to use ADO with Visual Basic or VBA for Access passwords and workgroups.

• Various Microsoft book chapters on security that have been published on the Web.

• Discussions on shortcut files and startup commands.

• Papers on running the User-Level Security wizard.

• Windows authentication security in SQL Server.

• A link to SSW Access Reporter.NET.

• Various other links, book references, and article references.

You can find the further reading Web page for this chapter in the Downloads section of the Apress Web site at http://www.apress.com or at the following address: http://www.vb123.com/map/dat.htm .