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Search results: Security

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Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Support for pulling Data Source credentials from HashiCorp Vault password stores (and other cloud native password vaults)

We have requirements driven by IT to standardize on storing passwords for applications in HashiCorp Vault, a centralized password store that enables fine-grained access to the credentials. Today, we have to create crude integration scripts to main...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Under review

Labeling Cognos Report Outputs using Microsoft Purview Information Protection SDK

We have a business requirement to add a 'Microsoft Purview Information Protection' tags to a Cognos Report during downloads. Adding these tags to the reports will help in tracking Data Leakage in organization after reports are generated.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

My parameters feature - improved security evaluation

Hello, we are using the My parameters feature in cognos where from one place we can share the prompt selection cross many reports as default option. We have a lot of security in our system including data source/package levels. When using my parame...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Able to set Autocomplete attribute off on main login page.

Our Penetration testers found that the autocomplete attribute was not set for the password field on the main login page. After I opened up a support ticket IBM stated: Unfortunately, development won't accept missing 'autocomplete=off' as a defect....
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

the grant type "grant_type=urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:jwt-bearer" which is part of the OBO flow

we have requirement from Users to setup Cognos to Starburst, Databricks and Snowflake SID based data source connections to achieve user impersonation. we are using ADFS supports OBO pattern to obtain the access token which is not in place with Cog...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted