Michael Westendorf, Jul 8, 2015, DBServices blog Source: https://dbservices.com/blog/filemaker-safety-checklist Menu of Chapters FileMaker Security: Protect Your Data #tag1 Introduction to FileMaker Security In the digital age, securing data is no longer optional—it’s a fundamental requirement. FileMaker, with its versatility as a database management platform, offers a variety of security features, but these must be configured
Wim Decorte, May 15, 2015, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/soliant-tv/keychain-access-windows-mac/ Table of Contents Introduction In this post, we’ll take a deep dive into how Keychain Access works in FileMaker 14 on both Mac and Windows, the changes it brings, and how you can control this feature as a developer. What is Keychain Access in FileMaker?
Rosemary Tietge, FileMaker DevCon 2014 In an era where data breaches make regular headlines, securing business data has never been more critical. Rosemary Tietge’s DevCon 2014 session focused on the evolving threat landscape, security trends, and how FileMaker users can mitigate these risks by leveraging FileMaker’s built-in security tools. This post provides an in-depth exploration
Jon Thatcher, FileMaker DevCon 2014 Database encryption is essential for protecting sensitive information stored in FileMaker systems. In this session, Jon Thatcher, the Database Server Lead Engineer at FileMaker, explains the importance of database encryption, how FileMaker implemented it in version 13, and the best practices for working with encrypted databases. This post explores these
Wim Decorte, Jan 3, 2014, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/references-embedded-container-data/ FileMaker 13 introduces a new function that gives us some 30 different attributes about the data we store in a container field: GetContainerAttribute(). One of those attributes is the name of the file that we can ask for like this: And another attribute is to see whether
Wim Decorte, Jan 10, 2013, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/development-vs-deployment/ On FMforums.com Steven H. Blackwell has an interesting blog entry titled “Unskilled and Unaware”. It basically states that what we don’t know can hurt us. This point of view fits with a challenge that I have frequently used to start off my Devcon presentations on server deployments
Wim Decorte, Dec 20, 2012, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/filemaker-server-directory-ldap/ When you host a FileMaker solution on FileMaker Server you can take advantage of a very powerful feature to use accounts and groups already in the company’s Windows Active Directory or the OS X Open Directory. For the feature to work you need only two
Wim Decorte, Nov 29, 2012, Soliant Consulting Blog Source: https://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog/filemaker-backups-network-share/ I like simple rules. Like the 3-2-1 rule for backups which tells us to keep 3 backups of anything that is important, store them on at least 2 different backup media, and keep at least 1 backup in a different place. Applying that rule to