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Disabling Screenshot on Oracle Analytics Cloud.

Sudheer.Pai-Oracle

I have client who have lots of employees from various LOBs who are part of the OAC BI Consumer Group who are taking screenshots of the Reports and dashboard.

We would like to disable screenshot on the reports and dashboard.
any Setting we can change for this ?

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Ram-Oracle

@Sudheer.Pai-Oracle There are no settings restricting users to take screenshots. However please check object level security and data security for biconsumers.

How To Secure and Share Data Visualization Workbooks in Oracle Analytics (Doc ID 2642690.1)

Please refer section work with object permissions

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/analytics-cloud/acmdg/data-access-security.html

you may also restrict users to export dv workbook

How To Restrict Exporting In OAC DV (Doc ID 2988257.1)

Bhaskar Konar

https://community.oracle.com/products/oracleanalytics/discussion/24435/diabling-screenshot-on-oracle-analytics-cloud

Might not be possible at this moment, please find below the idea that is present in the idea lab.

https://community.oracle.com/products/oracleanalytics/discussion/20172/restrict-screenshot-screen-recording-on-oracle-analytics-mobile-app

Sudheer.Pai-Oracle

Thank you Ram and Bhaskar for your replies.
Can this be added to an enhancement request?. Lots of Banks and secure sites have disabled Screenshots so it can be done.

Gianni Ceresa

Just asking…

How do you prevent a user from taking a picture of their screen with a phone or anything like that?

If the information is visible on a screen, it's gone: it's available to the user in many different ways. Nothing will really prevent a user who want a screenshot to really take one.

If you search how to prevent taking a screenshot of a browser page, you will see that there isn't a single simple answer. Video streaming/playback is a different thing as there are different protocols and features involved, but Oracle Analytics isn't a video anyway.

Get an IT person of that client to explain to the manager who asked this feature all the simple way it can be bypassed, job done. And that they will need to suppress pens and paper from the desks because an employee could write down a number on a piece of paper…

PS: a native mobile application is a different topic, because it is executed in a very different environment than a browser on PC/mac.

Sudheer.Pai-Oracle

Thanks Gianni.

to answer to your point. Nothing pervents users from recording or taking a picture from the phone.

Compliant we heard from the customer is the LOB users are screenshots of the reports and using the screenshot to extract data and load it into PowerBI and other tools which is a huge security issue.

Client reached out saying if we can disable screenshot it will reduce their risk if not eliminate it totally.

Gianni Ceresa

using the screenshot to extract data and load it into PowerBI and other tools which is a huge security issu

This is what I mean: instead of wasting your time trying to find something that doesn't change anything to the problem, explain to your customers why their idea is the wrong solution to the wrong problem.

In 2 clicks a user can just get the request that the screen executed and that returns a nicely formatted JSON with all the data. That JSON will load in PowerBI or any other tool even more easily than having to use a OCR or some AI assistant to turn a picture into numbers.

The question is: why are users using PowerBI or other tools to find answers to their questions? To me it means that the analytical platform isn't doing much and isn't helping the users in doing their job. Otherwise they would have no reason to move the data to a different tool.

But as said: it's the wrong solution to the wrong problem, your customer will benefit a lot more by understanding this and working on the real problem than investing hours to block the users for a few hours, till they find a different way to do what they are doing already (like taking the JSON directly as I mentioned, and that one you can't block it because the tool requires it to work).

Steve F-2

To add, Power BI is a supported and documented client for OAC, so perhaps that should be evaluated, along with communication and training.

Integrate Oracle Analytics Cloud with Microsoft Power BI (Preview)