• My preferred method to block user's from seeing other peoples data - especially sales and financial data, is using AD logins on the report server. The AD policy forces password changes regularly so its not that easy for others to get in with "other" credentials. My end-users are generally quite IT illiterate so I depend on AD to lock them down and keep out of each others figures. So far its worked well.

    But yes, if one of them had to "steal" or guess a login then they would get in to that users data. Same goes for their email or windows profile and documents. Worst case (on SSRS) they get to see one other user's sales figures. The data source they're connecting through is using fixed credentials, with execute on a single SP, so that should be secure enough to block a "hacker" from getting further than that result set.

    I didn't want to give them too many user names and passwords to fill in as it does mean more support work for their IT department.

    ///EDIT///

    I see what youre getting at Luke, in the ERP/Financial systems I am reporting on I will capture the AD login of the user against the resources/accounts/items/GL Accounts. In the query/SP that returns the report data, I filter the USERID.VALUE against that "hard coded" login.

    When they login to SSRS with their AD login, I use that as a parameter and only return their records.