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Applying object security

Applying object security

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Applying object security

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- [Narrator] Applying object security best practices with the Unity Catalog system involves several characteristics. First, we have leveraging access control lists, or ACLs. ACLs allow granting or restricting access to specific users and groups on securable objects like tables, views, and more. They also provide fine-grain control so you can secure access to sensitive data, you can go beyond this by also having fine-grain access as well to objects. So you can have database schema level permissions, you can secure access to individual tables, pipelines, workflows, but only based on what is necessary for that task. And you can even control reading, writing, and permission selectively. Finally, it all wraps up into least privilege. The idea with least privilege is, only provide the minimum required access, don't give someone abilities that they don't need because this creates a security breach. For example, if someone only…

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