FileMaker® Pro 13 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

14. Protecting a Database

In This Chapter

• The Importance of Security

• The FileMaker Security Model

• FileMaker’s Default Security Settings

• The Manage Security Window

• Creating Privilege Sets

• Privilege Sets and Scripts

• Creating Accounts

• Resetting an Account’s Password

• Securing New Databases

• Additional Security Features

While working on the examples in this book, you’ve been using sample (or “fake”) contact data. Therefore, there hasn’t been a need to worry about the security of the Contacts database that you’ve created. However, when you start creating databases to manage “real” data, you’ll want to be sure that the data is safe and secure.

In this chapter, you learn why it is important to secure FileMaker databases and how to ...