# Configuring Basic Remote Development Security

Restricting access to your application page directories is the most important step you can take in making your site secure. You can do this using ColdFusion Basic security. However, you may find it necessary to provide broader access to these directories if, for example, you have several geographically dispersed participants in a development project. In addition, a group of widely dispersed developers may require different levels of access to files and data sources.

## Securing data sources

In addition to your application pages, you also need to consider data source security. Using basic security measures, you can take several steps to ensure that your data sources remain secure even when your application page directories are partially accessible:

1. If you don't need to insert, update, or delete data in the data source, configure it as read-only. You can do this in the ColdFusion Administrator ODBC Data Source Advanced page.
2. Use a database system that supports security and create a user account that has access to only selected tables and operations (such as, SELECT, INSERT). You can then configure ColdFusion to use that account when interacting with the data source.
3. Using the ColdFusion ODBC or Native Drivers page, configure ColdFusion settings to allow only certain SQL operations (such as SELECT and INSERT) in interactions with the data source.