Beginning PowerApps: The Non-Developers Guide to Building Business Mobile Applications

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13. Securing Apps

Tim Leung¹ 

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Reading, UK

 

The ability to secure apps and data is important, particularly given the ease with which we can build apps that connect to sensitive commercial data. In this chapter, we’ll investigate how to keep our apps and data safe. The techniques that we’ll cover will include the following:

• How to strengthen the login process. We’ll find out how to authenticate users based on one-time SMS text message codes. This provides a higher level of security, compared to using usernames and passwords.
• How to secure data. We’ll look at how to grant or deny user access to underlying CDS or SharePoint data sources. We’ll also find out how ...