[...] Control access to your SAS data with metadata-bound libraries. By putting your SAS-based data files into a secured library, you can use SAS metadata permissions to grant access to just the SAS users that need them. Because this access is completely controlled by the SAS Metadata Server, even a savvy SAS programmer can't gain access with a well-formed LIBNAME statement. (Attempts will be rebuffed, as if in Sue Storm's invisible shield.) SAS secured libraries were added in SAS 9.3 Maintenance 2. …