Summary:
Any multi user system needs to have a concept of security to protect one users data from another. This security element could be anything from granting or denying a user access to a file, a network share, or certain entities in a database. These security mechanisms are controlled via the use of Permissions. Before the advent of .NET, using permissions in application code was hard, but now the framework allows a very open and extensible permission architecture. In this article, the third of the week's security-based articles, Kaushal Sanghavi explores the support that the .NET framework offers for working with permissions, and demonstrate how developers can design their own custom permissions to control access to protected data. |
