How to govern Security in Power BI
A step-by-step guide to governing Security in Power BI with Rencore: detect, review by owner and severity, and remediate with an audit trail.
Governing Security in Power BI means finding where it goes wrong, reviewing the findings by owner and severity, and remediating with an audit trail. Rencore covers this concern for Power BI with the pre-built controls below, so it becomes a repeatable check rather than a one-off cleanup. The steps that follow apply the same detect, review, remediate loop to Security.
Steps
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Inventory Power BI
Connect Power BI and let Rencore build a continuous inventory of its resources, owners, and configuration, so governance starts from what exists rather than a stale export.
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Detect with policies
Turn on the pre-built policies that cover Security in Power BI to surface oversharing, sprawl, and misconfiguration on the first scan, before writing a single custom rule.
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Review by owner and severity
Use the Power BI reports to review findings by owner, category, and severity, and to share them with stakeholders who do not have a seat in the platform.
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Remediate and automate
Apply automations to fix findings at scale, route sensitive changes through approvals, and keep every action reversible and logged for the audit trail.
Power BI controls for Security
Grounded in the Rencore catalog. See the full Power BI catalog on the Power BI connector page.
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External Sharing Risk with External Users
Identifies reports with external access permissions that may violate data protection policies
Severity: High -
Power BI Dashboards with External Access
Identifies dashboards specifically shared externally which may contain aggregated sensitive information
Severity: High -
Power BI Reports without Classification
Identifies reports lacking required sensitivity classification to ensure data governance compliance
Severity: Medium -
Power BI Workspaces with External Access
Identifies workspaces where external users have been granted access rights
Severity: Medium -
Power BI Workspaces without Administrators
Identifies workspaces lacking designated administrative ownership, creating accountability risks
Severity: Medium
