Avoiding Turbulent Skies: Power BI Security Strategies for a Smooth Flight
summary
Covers concrete Power BI controls: tenant review finds about 120 tenant settings including that publish to web enabled by default (demo shows Google indexing an incognito report), gateway behavior (register vs install, a gateway tenant admin toggle reveals all gateways), workspace roles and the hidden danger that members/contributors bypass model RLS, plus explicit build permissions for viewers, cross‑workspace patterns, and RLS/OLS setup examples with test-as-role checks. Recommends security groups, least privilege, and documented admin handoffs.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Power BI security challenges
- 1:11Power BI admin roles
- 2:57Power BI admin roles differences
- 4:02Power BI admins in data teams
- 5:04Tenant settings and governance
- 8:15Key tenant settings
- 10:45User groups management
- 13:38Power BI data gateways
- 17:52Gateway admin and security
- 20:17Preventing connection sprawl
- 22:04Connection types security
- 25:14Workspace roles and least privilege
- 27:00Role vs workspace security
- 28:25Workspace clutter with apps
- 30:53Cross-workspace access
- 33:00Demo: governed vs semi-governed workspaces
- 38:14Build permissions for reports
- 41:04Data model security with RLS
- 44:12Object-level security impact
- 46:18Demo: RLS and object-level security
- 49:47Testing RLS effectiveness
- 51:12Key takeaways
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