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Power BI Secured Connectivity
I am really thrilled to see the power of PowerBI as Self Service BI..My client is in Insurance domain working with Highly Confidential data for reporting. They have on-premise SQL Databases (Relation...
Probably the most secure route to go would be to install the Enterprise Gateway and use a Direct Query query to the on-premises database. See the Power BI Security post here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-admin-power-bi-security/
Actually, I would argue that your data would be more secure if you stored it in the cloud in Azure SQL DB or Azure SQL as IaaS versus an on-premises data center, but I might be in the minority on that. Bottom line, Microsoft's cloud is more secure than just about anyone's data center, IMHO.