Microsoft® Office Access 2007 on Demand

13. Protecting and Securing a Database

What You’ll Do

Add Security Encryption to a Database

Create a Digital Certificate

Add a Digital Signature to a Database Project

Package and Digitally Sign a Database

Avoid Harmful Attacks

Use the Trust Center

Select Trusted Publishers and Locations

Set Add-in Security Options

Set Macro Security Options

Change Message Bar Security Options

Set Privacy Options

Lock a Database

Lock Database Records

Introduction

Adding a password to protect your database is not only a good idea for security purposes, it’s an added feature to make sure that changes to your database aren’t made by unauthorized people. When you add database protection, you’ll be asked to supply a password, and then enter it again when you want ...