LASsie (Light Application Security) is a Microsoft
Access Add-In that enhances your Access application
with a simplified user security system. Intended as an
alternative to Access� built-in security, LASsie offers
a less complicated way to secure forms, reports,
controls and certain records from unauthorized user
access. With LASsie, you can prevent a user from
opening specific forms/reports, restrict their ability
to update data on a form, disable certain controls,
filter certain records, all based on a user�s assigned
Security Level.

LASsie includes a friendly user sign-on form that
prompts for a login user name and password. Users can
change their own passwords via the included "change
password" form. Optionally, the sign-on form can be
bypassed and the user's network login username can be
used. Once the user name is verified, his/her session
is assigned a Security Level code that determines which
forms or reports can be accessed, if data updates are
allowed, and more.

LASsie is called "light" application security because
it is not intended to be a robust, high-end security
application. In fact, a sophisticated user could edit
the underlying tables and change their own security
level. By hiding the LASsie tables, and/or linking to
them in an external, encrypted database, you could
minimize the possibility of such potential breaches,
but you should understand that we do not guarantee that
such a breach will never occur. That being said, LASsie
can serve quite well as an application security system
where users are relatively unsophisticated, or where
application data is not of a highly classified nature.

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