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gopowerbi
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9 years ago
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Hallo everyone,   I have a question regarding the document that Power BI published regarding its security. In the document is mentioned that Power BI does store the data on "Azure BLOB" and the me...
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  • Greg_Deckler's avatar
    Greg_Deckler
    9 years ago

    gopowerbi - Yes, that is my understanding as well (your summary at the end). I think that's why Anonymous and I were so certain that the second highlighted statement had to be incorrect. If it was indeed as stated, then Anonymous and I have spent the last couple years fundamentally not understanding how Power BI works!

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9 years ago

Greg_Deckler I felt the same. "reached out to a Microsoft contact" = Either I missed something unforgivable, or this is an error... I hope this is an error. :)

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gopowerbi
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9 years ago

I also had doubt about this but I wanted to ask to get sure this is not true :robotindifferent: .

To sum up:

Power BI is based on Azure -> a company's data will do the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) procedure (exeption it is a livequery), which means the dataset, reports and dashboards will be saved on Azure BLOB, while the metadata will be saved in an Azure SQL Server. -> everything is on the cloud but it is encrypted (or atleast it should be since Q3 2016). right?

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    Greg_Deckler
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    9 years ago

    gopowerbi - Yes, that is my understanding as well (your summary at the end). I think that's why Anonymous and I were so certain that the second highlighted statement had to be incorrect. If it was indeed as stated, then Anonymous and I have spent the last couple years fundamentally not understanding how Power BI works!

    • gopowerbi's avatar
      gopowerbi
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      9 years ago

      Thank you for your effort you are putting in this community. It is not the first time I have opened a thread and you replied solving my problems. Thank you Greg_Deckler and Anonymous

  • v-qiuyu-msft's avatar
    v-qiuyu-msft
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    9 years ago

    Hi gopowerbi,

     

    From the Word document, it said

     

    "Metadata about a user’s Power BI subscription, such as dashboards, reports, recent data sources, workspaces, organizational information, tenant information, and other metadata about the system is stored and updated in Azure SQL Database. All information stored in Azure SQL Database is fully encrypted using Azure SQL’s Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) technology. All data that is stored in Azure Blob storage is also encrypted. More information about the process of loading, storing, and moving data is described in the Data Storage and Movement section."

    So in my opinion, stored metadata are encrypted in cloud.

     

    Best Regards,
    Qiuyun Yu