Cognos Analytics open report/dashboard via URL

[MFB]

I got a question about opening reports/dashboards via URL.

The goal is to open a few reports/dashboard via an application directly. This can be done by using an URL, but in the URL there is hard coded a username/password to bypass the login screen. Is there a more secure way to bypass the login screen via an URL without seeing or using the username/password. for example via an token or something like that?

Or is there a best practice for this?

They are using C11.1 now.